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Belgian City Goes Vegetarian Once a Week

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Last week, the City of Ghent in Belgium started eating vegetarian one day a week. Not only is there reason to believe that livestock contribute to greenhouse gases, but meat is resource-intensive to produce. A lot of land and money goes into producing meat in a world with diminishing space.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Americans do have a special relationship with horses, and how we treat them reveals much about our own humanity and how far we have evolved. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong. But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens.