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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. But for more than 20 years, consumer groups led by Public Citizen have worked to scare the public about food irradiation and threatened to boycott companies that market irradiated products. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year. It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India.