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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. Specifically, the increasing meat-consumption trend could be reversed if consumers paid the true price for meat. Finishing the cattle on grass is a far “greener” method. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.

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Animal Ethics

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers. Susan Beal Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: Nicholas D.