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Growing Meat vs. Going Vegetarian

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In today's Dot Earth post " Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too? ," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. Every day, some people switch from meat-based diets to vegetarian diets.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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(Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p. 8) The argument for the immorality of eating meat continues with two additional, undeniable premises: (3) The animals that become that meat are killed. For more detailed descriptions of the conditions in which farm animals are raised, see here , here , and here.

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: Re “ More Perils of Ground Meat ” (editorial, Jan. Jeremy Russell Director of Communications and Government Relations National Meat Association Oakland, Calif., 11, 2010 To the Editor: I’ve been involved in beef safety research since college, and I don’t recognize the industry you’ve depicted in recent articles.

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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

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Meat eating as implied by the foregoing remarks may be more ecologically responsible than a wholly vegetable diet. They have become, in Ruth Harrison 's most apt description, "animal machines."

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Another Reason to Go Vegetarian

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In recent years, MRSA has been found in retail cuts of chicken, pork, beef and other meats—a particularly worrisome trend since MRSA can be contracted simply by handling infected cuts of meat. Just how prevalent is MRSA-infected meat? Unfortunately, MRSA can be passed from person to person. All evidence points to factory farms.

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From Today's New York Times

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billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms.

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From Today's New York Times

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Well-planned vegan diets are healthful for pregnant mothers and their infants, as well as for older children, according to a large body of scientific research. He was starved to death by parents who did not give him breast milk, soy-based infant formula or enough food of any kind. Contrary to Ms. Petersburg, Fla.,