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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases is generated by livestock production, more than by transportation. 9, 2008 Note from KBJ: Some reasons for vegetarianism apply to all animals, from cows, pigs, and sheep to turkeys, chickens, and fish.

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The True Costs of Eating Meat

Animal Ethics

Livestock accounts for at least 21 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions globally -- more than all forms of transportation combined. Undigested antibiotics leach from manure into freshwater systems and impair the sex organs of fish. He thinks we would rightly "frame the matter as a dire political issue."

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