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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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The rising consumer preference for more “natural” and local products and concerns about pollution and antibiotic use in giant livestock operations are also driving change. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars. And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. Raising livestock is the best use of most pasture land, not growing crops. What is wrong is factory farms.