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US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry

Critter News

Department of Agriculture also said it will buy $60 million of turkey, $2 million of lamb and $29.7 Pork farmers have been losing an average of $20 on each hog marketed since October 2007, according to the U.S. million of walnuts. Last week, the USDA bought approximately 200 million pounds of nonfat dry milk to help the dairy industry.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

The study was published in the December 2007 issue of the Public Library of Science’s journal PLOS Medicine.