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• CAFO Action Alert

  
  Edible Aria — Authority: 426
  As Wendell Berry has tartly observed, to take animals off pasture and put them on feed-lots is to take an elegant solution — animals replenishing the fertility that crops deplete — and neatly divide it into two problems: a fertility problem on the farm and a pollution problem on the feed-lot. The former problem is ...
  3 days ago

• Affordable Meat = Human Health Threat?

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 530
  From “ Swine CAFOs and Novel H1N1 Flu: Separating Facts from Fears ” comes this quote: one potential source of the original outbreak—swine farming in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)—has received comparatively little attention by public health officials. CAFOs house animals by the thousands in ...
  1 week ago

• Why Be A Vegetarian? By Yashoda

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 530
  This is a powerful speech by a young woman who goes by yashoda17 on YouTube. Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RIGcf2Liq0
  1 week ago

• Who Cares About The Swine (Flu)?

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 530
  Even the way people talk about the Swine Flu belies our social myths and prejudices. Here’s an example. Animals, particularly pigs, have a lot in common with humans. That’s why some viruses spread between species, from pigs to people for example. This much scientists understand. They try to convey this through ...
  2 weeks ago

• Factory Farming and Latin American Devestation

  
  Critter News — Authority: 131
  Here is an interesting 10 minute documentary about the effect of growing cheap animal feed in Latin America for European factory farms and how it effects the environment and people.
  3 weeks ago

• Big River: The Ecological Consequences of Industrial Agriculture

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Big River , the new documentary from filmmakers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, explores the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture, and serves as a companion to their eye-opening film King Corn .  I’ve really enjoyed Ian and Curt’s films so far, as they offer both entertaining and thoughtful ...
  4 weeks ago

• Meat Takes a Beating, Gets a Blessing on Larry King

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 509
  Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN ...
  4 weeks ago

• It’s time to stop exploiting animals for food

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 116
  By Peter Singer – professor of bioethics, Princeton University I’ve been interested in issues of animal liberation since the 1970s, but there have been some important new developments in the past few years, particularly the increasing awareness of issues to do with factory farming. There’s been a high level ...
  8 weeks ago

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