Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I realize that the most humane method of treating chickens is to not kill them for food.BUT, as long as there is still a demand for their meat, PETA is advocating "Controlled-Atmosphere Killing" as an improvement over current methods of electric immobilization. The birds are not "gassed" (i.e., Controlled-atmosphere killing is a U.S.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

We can thank factory farming for yet another antibiotic-resistant supergerm: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). 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.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. Push-ups, sit-ups, carrying 50-pound bags of bird seed—and I will be 71 in May. Kristof (column, April 9): Thank you for this inspiring and enlightening article.

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