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Is Cheap Meat Endangering Our Lives?

Critter News

Will our desire to mass-produce cheap meat end in a health disaster? How much harm will we do to ourselves in the name of cheap meat? We know that bird flu developed in the world's vast poultry farms. But once you factor in the cost of all these diseases and pandemics, cheap meat suddenly looks like an illusion.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “Officials Point to Swine Flu in New York” (front page, April 26): Dare we ask why this happening [sic]? What will it take for us, and our public health leaders, to question our addiction to meat and tolerance of factory farming?