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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Missing from your article was mention of deleterious environmental and health effects resulting from intensive animal farming in addition to global warming. Specifically, the increasing meat-consumption trend could be reversed if consumers paid the true price for meat. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers.