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Quash the Squash

4 The Love Of Animals

The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. Quash the Squash originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 28, 2009. Right now, the UK government is considering new EU legislation that may increase the number of chickens allowed in rearing sheds.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Let’s tell people of the quantum jump in energy efficiency that could be accomplished by eating less meat and having what meat is eaten be grass fed and pasture raised by local farmers. It’s easy to cut meat consumption if you start with one day a week of no meat. Bonnie Lane Webber New York, Jan.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. 2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

While its exact origin is still unclear, this pathogen, and many others (like avian influenza), originated from animals being raised or eaten for food. As the world moves toward raising the majority of animals in the unnatural setting of factory farms, it is likely that more, and worse, such pathogens will arise.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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On "The Age of Stupid"

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And the wife says that one thing the family does is eat less meat and eggs (and they raise the animals on their land), but even that is glossed over. And there is a family in rural England who charts their energy use and we see that food is the second highest use of energy for them (air travel takes up the most). But they dismiss food.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ More Perils of Ground Meat ” (editorial, Jan. percent for 2009 versus 0.99 Jeremy Russell Director of Communications and Government Relations National Meat Association Oakland, Calif., The American food safety system is the highest standard in the world, and our ground beef is the safest.