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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To address this problem, I have introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R. The American Medical Association, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Academy of Pediatrics are among the more than 350 health, agriculture and other groups nationwide that have endorsed this bill.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, management and husbandry are more important than the type of production system for ensuring the health and well-being of pigs. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry. That is never humane.

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. This is where I'm confused.