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On the Land Grant University Meat Problem

Animal Person

Given the abundant literature on conflict of interest in the academy, and given that knowledge is routinely used to promote special interests and popular interests over the public interest, maybe we should monitor our educational institutions at least as much as governmental ones.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. That’s right, for me—but it may not be for others. April 9, 2009 The writer is president of United Poultry Concerns, an advocacy group. Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? I still have the same six-pack stomach I had in the Marines.