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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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Farm animals used for food and fiber or for food and fiber research are not regulated under the AWA.”.Unlike Unlike domestic animals, there are minimal organizations or lobbyists to defend these animals, therefore leaving public opinion to be shaped only by the insincere comments of the cattle industry.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. 10, 2008 To the Editor: Your editorial is exactly right: for our sake and theirs, we need to eat fewer animals. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., 11, 2008