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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9) does little to advance the debate on farm animal housing. Research indicates that sows do just fine in individual housing. Decisions on how best to house farm animals should be left to the family farmers, like me, who care for their animals every day.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

There is also little dispute concerning the following premise: (4) The animals that become that meat are reared in ways that subject them to intense pain and suffering for much of their lives. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.

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Another Reason to Go Vegetarian

Animal Ethics

It's hard to say because the government still has not instituted a comprehensive MRSA inspection process, but independent research conducted by Tara Smith, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa, suggests that MRSA-infected animals may be widespread indeed. are fed to farm animals.