Critter News
APRIL 24, 2012
The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. Department of Agriculturetests about 40,000 cows a year in its effort to catch the disease.
Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2008
4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog. Gimme, gimme, gimme!
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Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild. Such a vegetarian will, however, object to the drinking of milk, since the production of milk requires a painful separation between cow and calf. Philip E.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 11, 2008
4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. Finishing the cattle on grass is a far “greener” method. But the leaner meat from grass-fed animals actually tastes richer and more savory. Andrew Rimas Evan D. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass.,
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. To the Editor: The claims Nicolette Hahn Niman makes for how greenhouse gases might be reduced while still eating meat may very well be true, and I do not have the expertise to challenge them. The best advice Ms.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2018
Cows are considered sacred by majority of Hindus so cow meat is generally not consumed. This results in the cow’s corpse being left to be fed on by vultures. Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. No one knew why they were dying.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,
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