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US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry

Critter News

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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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re β€œ 100 Years Later, the Food Industry Is Still β€˜The Jungle,’ ” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, Jan. 2): Yes, 100 years ago Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the plight of the immigrant and focused in part on the meat industry. Since 1999, the incidence of E. Since 1999, the incidence of E.