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31): Would the average American have believed that hamburgers were treated with ammonia to remove salmonella and E. labor costs and saving the lives of hamburger lovers. 1, 2010 To the Editor: Your article gave a whole new meaning to “Where’s the Beef?” 1, 2010 Note from KBJ: Enjoy your hamburger. Chang Stanford, Calif.,

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From Today's New York Times

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Is it any wonder that cynicism with regard to the efficacy of government is at an all-time high? 5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E. Victoria Bridgehampton, N.Y., It tasted wonderful—juicy, fragrant and meaty.

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What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms. Niman’s ranch and others using comparable methods? How many people would be able to afford the price?

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We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal.

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Industrial Agriculture

Animal Ethics

By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). Moore looks like he has eaten one too many hamburgers.) The wrongness of factory farming is overdetermined. See here for one sufficient ground. Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

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. Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world.