Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

A recent agreement between farmers and animal rights activists here is a rare compromise in the bitter and growing debate over large-scale, intensive methods of producing eggs and meat, and may well push farmers in other states to give ground, experts say. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

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. Lawrence S.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. Anna Lappé Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 The writer is a co-founder of the Small Planet Institute.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

27, 2008 To the Editor: The majority of people do not understand what society is causing because of our appetite for meat in every meal. 27, 2008 To the Editor: “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler” was misguided. We are evolved to eat meat—it is right and natural. What is wrong is factory farms. We reap what we sow.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. 21, 2008 To the Editor: You rightly capture the magnitude of the problem of ensuring safe food products. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Bertha Rogers Delhi, N.Y.,

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