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US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry

Critter News

Department of Agriculture also said it will buy $60 million of turkey, $2 million of lamb and $29.7 And economists have said dairy producers are losing an average of $3 per cow per day. million of walnuts. Last week, the USDA bought approximately 200 million pounds of nonfat dry milk to help the dairy industry. Pork Producers.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Consistency

Animal Ethics

I have had no other animal products (no beef, pork, lamb, or turkey, for example) since 1982. That depends on whether there are morally relevant differences between chickens and fish on the one hand and cows, pigs, and sheep on the other. (I I, for example, am a demi-vegetarian. I eat chicken, fish, and eggs. Am I a hypocrite?