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Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry. Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Los Angeles, Oct. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering.

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March 18, 2010 The writer is director of the Emergency Response Team, cruelty investigations department, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Treating cruelty to animals with the seriousness it deserves doesn’t only protect animals, it also makes the entire community safer. Martin Mersereau Norfolk, Va.,

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Kathy Guillermo Director Laboratory Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., And when one considers that millions of dogs and cats are killed each year in shelters because there are no homes for them, cloning becomes unethical as well. May 21, 2008

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The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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It, too, traced, with a great deal of investigative reporting, the journey fat trimmings take through the meatpacking industry. To the Editor: “ Company’s Record on Treatment of Beef Is Called Into Question ” (front page, Dec. 31): Would the average American have believed that hamburgers were treated with ammonia to remove salmonella and E.

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He would have saved us the necessity of sending an undercover investigator to film the shocking mistreatment of animals. Nocera actually had such clairvoyant powers over the meat-packing industry, why didn’t he put them to use last autumn and blow the whistle on the Westland/Hallmark slaughter plant? Mr. Nocera is anything but a soothsayer.

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Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for.