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Pork Industry Moving into Defensive Mode

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The Pork Board has planned delegate meetings at the {annual Pork Industry} forum to discuss quality assurance rules including animal handling, and how much money to allocate to promote animal welfare. The pork industry does not make money from happy pigs, but from dead carcasses. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.

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Mad Cow Disease Appears in California

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The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. billion industry in California 2008 and fifth among the state’s top 20 commodities. The state also hosts 1.84

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Animal Ethics

I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. It will be said that animal husbandry is one of the most inefficient and destructive industries on the planet, and that the planet cannot survive unless humans change their diets. Others will do so for health reasons.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

8) The argument for the immorality of eating meat continues with two additional, undeniable premises: (3) The animals that become that meat are killed. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. (Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

While its exact origin is still unclear, this pathogen, and many others (like avian influenza), originated from animals being raised or eaten for food. As the world moves toward raising the majority of animals in the unnatural setting of factory farms, it is likely that more, and worse, such pathogens will arise.

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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"

Animal Person

We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). We don't advocate "happy meat" but veganism. So, I thought you could be interested in helping us to raise the funds.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. Many of the beef industry’s problems result from feedlots that consume tremendous amounts of grain and that pour out huge sloughs of waste. Andrew Rimas Evan D. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass.,