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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. Most animals in the U.S. This is really interesting. I certainly didn't.

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From Today's New York Times

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31): Would the average American have believed that hamburgers were treated with ammonia to remove salmonella and E. The United States Department of Agriculture has been broken for a long time, and it is clear that it cannot protect the American public from illness and death from contaminated meat products. Chang Stanford, Calif.,

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. coli bacteria or food additives.

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5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. 4): Your article about E. Smith the very best.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

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The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is estimated that the amount of grain fed to cattle and hogs in the United States in 1971 was twice that of U.S. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered.

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Regardless of what we choose to eat, doing so will reduce our dietary carbon footprint by half because “about half of the food produced in the United States is thrown away.” What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms. Toney Union, N.J., Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,