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I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale."

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

18): As a microbiologist, I know that study after study has highlighted the human health threat from using antibiotics as feed additives for hogs, chickens and cattle, creating super-bugs—bacteria that no longer can be treated with antibiotics. To the Editor: Re “ Antibiotic Runoff ” (editorial, Sept.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In addition, allowing animal waste to be spread on fields at rates higher than can be absorbed, resulting in nutrient runoff and oceanic dead zones, needs to be stopped. If these policies were adopted, small-scale animal agriculture would be a more economical model, and people would eat less meat. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.