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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ From Hoof to Dinner Table, a New Bid to Cut Emissions ” (front page, Dec. 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. Note from KBJ: The author of the New York Times story describes human beings as "carnivores."

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy. I’ve raised a vegan child since conception. Children need protein.