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US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry

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Pork farmers have been losing an average of $20 on each hog marketed since October 2007, according to the U.S. Tags: subsidies meat USDA pork agribusiness dairy. The purchases are in addition to the ones the USDA makes annually for federal food programs. Pork Producers.

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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.