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A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. This requirement would at least relieve the worst of the production horrors that are common in the industry now.

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18 editorial about the abuse of antibiotics in industrial hog farms. The legislative and regulatory remedies you suggest are valid, but they will not solve the problem alone. To the Editor: I applaud “ Antibiotic Runoff ,” your Sept.

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To the Editor: As sponsors of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act , we take issue with Christa Weil’s views on the horsemeat industry ( Op-Ed , March 5). The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty.

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Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. Kristof wants animals to be raised for human consumption in the kind and generous manner of his boyhood farm, a way that certainly seems nicer to the animals than mean ol’ modern industrial-style farming.

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Global Warming

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Global warming is an animal ethics issue. As the planet warms, fragile habitats that countless animal species depend on for survival will be destroyed. We have already witnessed radical changes in the polar icecap, changes that threaten numerous arctic species. Matthews and Caldeira's findings suggest that the U.N.

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

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In Part 2, I will discuss and defend these claims, but here in Part 1, I want examine the real motivation for the Act, as well as the rhetoric that allowed such chilling legislation to sail through both houses of Congress. See the Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis here for details.] On November 4, 2005, Rep. The Senate Bill S.