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The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb.

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27): Mark Bittman answered my prayers by writing an article exposing how the meat industry contributes to global warming, world hunger and other issues plaguing our world. Elaine Sloan New York, Jan. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan.

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It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.

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2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Borrowing a move from the tobacco industry, Ms. Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. Toney Union, N.J., Lois Bloom Easton, Conn., Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism. Contrary to Ms.

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Montezuma Winery: Red Wing

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Confronted with this dilemma, New World winemaking stagnated for over a century as thirsty colonists turned their attentions to cider, beer, rum, and whisky instead. After Alexander’s happy accident, other hybrids followed, and a nascent American wine industry was born.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The new series was masterminded by Chanticleer founder Paul Steiner, who was lauded on his death 19 years later for his “brilliant idea of creating bird guides with photographs” and organizing them visually. New York Times, March 11, 1996. by John Bull and John Farrand, Jr., revised by John Farrand, Jr.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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The climatic changes set in motion by the Industrial Revolution are now proceeding at a pace far greater than many species and ecosystems can adapt to naturally. Butchart is head of science at BirdLife International and chairs the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group. Are they adaptable and remarkably enduring and resourceful?

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