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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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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. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm.

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Use it or lose it?

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There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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

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. Elaine Sloan New York, Jan.

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Autumn colours

10,000 Birds

This year will be tough on many birds as further mudflat destruction to construct factories in China means that they may not be able to feed in areas that they have known in the past. These Blasts From The Past Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008? Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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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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Animal Ethics

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. 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.