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Is Cheap Meat Endangering Our Lives?

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Will our desire to mass-produce cheap meat end in a health disaster? How much harm will we do to ourselves in the name of cheap meat? And we know that pumping animal feed full of antibiotics in factory farms has given us a new strain of MRSA. Tags: meat Swine Flu factory farm agribusiness. From the Independent.

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On the Land Grant University Meat Problem

Animal Person

Today's message and call to action is from David Cantor of Responsible Policies for Animals (thanks, Mike!). Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Instead, our LGUs teach the false ancient beliefs that maintain meat -- including dairy, fish, eggs, and feed crops -- as an institution. . Best wishes, .

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Our Strange Relationship with Animals

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I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]

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Now I'm Really Annoyed

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Here's a site for kids to program them to become "the next generation of laboratory animal science professionals." the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation. Experimenting on animals is fun and it helps everyone.even animals! Talk about an unholy alliance.beef and medical research.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. For one – and we’ll stick with this one issue for now – because sometimes the public decides to keep the animal they have found, just for a little while. To these people, we owe our gratitude.

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Why Top Chef Makes Me So Mad

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Throughout the entire show, the judges and contestants always refer to their meats as the "protein." Protein is not dependent on meat at all. I've seen two chefs wear stupid meat-inspired shirts. And frankly, I'm not sure these chefs have the training to do anything that doesn't involve a baby animal. That's not true.

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.