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From Today's New York Times

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Since using animals is cultural, not part of our biological nature or in any way necessary, animal use is by definition inhumane—unkind where we could as a society choose kind. It is inhumane to humans as well, E. June 24, 2009 Though factory-style production worsens it, the root problem is animal use.

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On the Land Grant University Meat Problem

Animal Person

Here is Responsible Policies for Animals' letter in the September-October 2009 Utne Reader -- responding to an article about questionable business-school teachings: As business schools teach harmful financial practices, our land-grant universities' college of agriculture teach harmful food practices, driving chronic disease, soaring medical and insurance (..)

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From Today's New York Times

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The meat industry is environmentally devastating, incredibly inhumane and now potentially the end to us all. Edward Machtinger San Francisco, April 26, 2009 The writer is an associate professor of medicine and director of the Women’s H.I.V. Program, University of California, San Francisco.

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On Humane Societies and Calf-Roping

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It's off to a promising start and includes a promising end: The HSUS opposes rodeos as they are commonly organized, since they typically cause torment and stress to animals; expose them to pain, injury, or even death; and encourage an insensitivity to and acceptance of the inhumane treatment of animals in the name of sport.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. -- if you'd like assistance or more information. Below is a press release about the mailing.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

April 9, 2009 To the Editor: In making the personal decision of where to place ourselves in our ethical relationship with animals, it is important to evaluate the reality of our words. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

Journal of the American Dietetics Association 109(7), July 2009: 1266-1282.] After two or three laying cycles when their egg production begins to wane, the layer hens are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and sent to slaughter, where they are processed into chicken soup and pet food.