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To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. FRIEDRICH Washington, Jan.

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Nocera tells us that most slaughterhouses don’t mistreat animals or funnel sick downer cows into the food chain. If Mr. Nocera actually had such clairvoyant powers over the meat-packing industry, why didn’t he put them to use last autumn and blow the whistle on the Westland/Hallmark slaughter plant? Oh, really?

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16): Given our exportation of large-scale intensive confinement facilities, it is tragic, though not surprising, that disease is devastating the Chinese industry. With this industrialization often comes overcrowding, inadequate ventilation and related physiological stress—factors implicated as heightening the risk of disease outbreaks.

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To the Editor: Re “ 100 Years Later, the Food Industry Is Still ‘The Jungle,’ ” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, Jan. 2): Yes, 100 years ago Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the plight of the immigrant and focused in part on the meat industry. Patrick Boyle President and Chief Executive American Meat Institute Washington, Jan.

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March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry. Eating dead animals and animal products is bad for people, bad for animals and bad for the planet.

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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. Senator) Mary Landrieu (Rep.)

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While some chicken producers and poultry purchasers have taken steps to reduce antibiotic use, the hog industry remains largely resistant to change. Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept. To the Editor: Re “ Antibiotic Runoff ” (editorial, Sept.