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Another Reason to Go Vegetarian

Animal Ethics

The numbers are high and rising: From 1996 to 2005, MRSA-related hospitalizations increased nearly tenfold. Factory farms are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where animals are raised intensively and permanently confined in warehouses and sheds. Just how prevalent is MRSA-infected meat?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong.