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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. All evidence points to factory farms.

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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.