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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factory farming. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

At the same time connections between the food industry and government agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have become so incestuous that we should expect little from them. 21, 2008 To the Editor: You rightly capture the magnitude of the problem of ensuring safe food products.