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Religious slaughter is still slaughter. To the Editor: Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld writes about the horrors of a kosher slaughterhouse where “news reports and government documents have described abusive practices.” But he says almost nothing about reports of how badly the animals were treated there. Gretchen Berger New York, Aug.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

10,000 Birds

In 2008, over nine billion chickens were slaughtered for Americans to eat. This post will get a bit into that for which I apologize, but it seems someone needs to do this. You see, the chickens are being shortchanged. Americans love chicken. Chicken soup and chicken wings are about as American as apple pie.

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April 21, 2008 To the Editor: Re “ Million-Dollar Meat ” (editorial, April 23): In vitro meat might not appeal to everyone, but I am guessing that the day PETA awards its prize money will be a happy day for the billions of land animals bound for slaughter. More than nine billion chickens are slaughtered each year in the United States.

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Anna Lappé Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 The writer is a co-founder of the Small Planet Institute. The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already. Susan Beal Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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If Mr. Nocera actually had such clairvoyant powers over the meat-packing industry, why didn’t he put them to use last autumn and blow the whistle on the Westland/Hallmark slaughter plant? Wayne Pacelle President and Chief Executive The Humane Society of the United States Washington, March 8, 2008

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You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter. May 5, 2008 The lack of maintenance and patrol is staggering under the stewardship of Joseph N.

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11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factory farming. 10, 2008 To the Editor: Your editorial sets forth a real, serious problem but proposes a futile solution. 10, 2008 To the Editor: Your editorial is exactly right: for our sake and theirs, we need to eat fewer animals. Lawrence S.