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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies. We call ourselves vegetarians.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers. Anna Lappé Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 The writer is a co-founder of the Small Planet Institute. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D.