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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat. Would no forests need to be cut down to create the pastures?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. The number of chickens, turkeys, pigs, cattle and other animals raised and slaughtered in the United States has been growing steadily for decades.