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A Self-Interested Reason to Not Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

Here are just a few facts drawn from the column: Drug-resistant infections killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. In the 1970s, the FDA proposed a ban on penicillin and tetracycline in animal feed, but the proposal was defeated after criticism from interest groups. last year—more than prostate and breast cancer combined.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,