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US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry

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Hard to wean people off animals when the US government is propping up the industries, and especially when so much of it ends up on school lunch trays (laying the foundation for this nation's obesity problem in my opinion.) Pork farmers have been losing an average of $20 on each hog marketed since October 2007, according to the U.S.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so.

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Agriculture Fears Possible "Cow Tax"

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The proposal was one of several drafted after a 2007 Supreme Court ruling found that greenhouse gases the animals emit through flatulence or belching amounts to air pollution. This country needs to eat less meat. {There was} a proposal Thursday, Dec. per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog. Remember cows "emit" methane.)

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. Judith Abeles San Diego, March 26, 2007

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

25): Thank you for another thoughtful piece by Verlyn Klinkenborg, who admirably makes the point that taking an animal’s life should not be a cavalier endeavor. For the same reason that most of us would not eat our pets, we should also not eat chickens, pigs or other animals. To the Editor: Re “ Two Pigs ” (The Rural Life, Oct.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Yes, all food animals should meet a dignified end. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong. March 5, 2007 The writer is an owner of Fasig-Tipton , North America’s oldest thoroughbred auction house. Hope Ryden New York, March 5, 2007 The writer is the author of a book about America’s last wild horses.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The United States Department of Agriculture purchases food, including high-fat meat and dairy products, under the direction of Congress based on agricultural surpluses and price support activities to help American agriculture producers. The cheeseburgers and meat tacos our children eat at school also deserve our full attention.