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• Jonathan Safran Foer – America’s #1 Terrorist?

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 120
  By Mikko Alanne With the publication of Jonathan Safran Foer’s captivating and powerful book, Eating Animals, much has been said and written about his undercover investigative work, which gives America a view inside the hidden world of factory farms. What has not been commented on, however, is the disquieting ...
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• Where Have All The Rational People Gone?

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  [The following post is written by one my Animal Law students who prefers to remain anonymous --dnc] I read an article recently that really offended me. The article was written on November 21, 2009 by Gary Steiner and was published in the New York Times Op-Ed section (Steiner’s piece has already been discussed  ...
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• Spending Less on Food, Spending More on Health Care

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 649
  As the health-care bill passes through Congress, one wonders about an issue that has been left out of discussions.  No, not abortion.  Food.  How much is what we eat linked to what we spend on health care? First, consider the costs. …
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• No Humane Slaughter? No Problem (because) No Standing

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  David Cassuto The 9th Circuit recently decided Levine v. Vilsack , a case challenging the  ongoing failure of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to include birds under the auspices of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA).  The case was brought by a group of plaintiffs in 2005, ...
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• Protecting Animals, One Mouthful at a Time

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  David Cassuto Emory University is attempting to preserve “heritage” turkeys by feeding them to its students.  The Standard Bronze and Bourbon Red turkeys are in danger of dying out due to lack of demand.  So, apparently, is the Tennessee Fainting Goat and other species that don’t fit the factory farm ...
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• Talking Turkey and the Sanctimony of American Slaughter

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  Christine Saenz It’s that time of year again. A time when 45 million turkeys are slaughtered, stuffed, and feasted upon for Thanksgiving dinners across the U.S. According to PETA and other sources , this 45 million makes up 1/6 of the number of turkeys killed each year in America. While many animal rights ...
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• Does the Winter Mean Fur Coats?

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  Simona Fucili   As the holiday season is approaching, one cannot help notice all of the fur ads you see in magazines and commercials .  The ads portray fur coats as a symbol of elegance and status but fail to show how the original owners of these coats met their gruesome deaths .  According to the Spanish ...
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• Factory “Farmaceuticals”

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  Jessica Morowitz Premarin ® is a hormone replacement therapy drug manufactured by Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals.  The drug is widely prescribed to an estimated nine million women to help them cope with the symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes and night sweats.  Premarin® gets its name by virtue of ...
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• You didn’t know, did you?

  
  Frogpondsrock... — Authority: 119
  Help End Factory-Farming at AnimalsAustralia.org
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• “Voiceless” Making Itself Heard

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  David Cassuto Fine op-ed on animal welfare laws here by Katrina Sharman of Voiceless , an Australian animal advocacy organization.  Parallels to the U.S. situation are clear and present…
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• Ohio’s Issue 2: Good for Animals?

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  Laura Schierhoff On November 2nd, Ohio voters passed Issue 2, a constitutional amendment , which creates a ‘Livestock Care Standards Board’ to set standards for livestock and poultry care, food safety, disease prevention, farm management, and animal well-being.  The Board will comprise of 13 Ohioans appointed ...
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• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 104
  I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
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• The Pig, The CAFO, & The Flu

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 130
  David Cassuto Excellent piece here regarding the pig CAFO/swine flu link and another one here about the inefficacy of the vaccine approach to prophylaxis.  And yet another interesting piece here about the intelligence and social nature of pigs. In light of these developments, let’s consider the American ...
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• H1N1 Flu and Pork Production Connection Raised By Jonathan Safran Foer

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 614
  kevinhutchinsons Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The vaccine for the H1N1 virus has received quite a bit of attention lately, however, important questions remain unattended about the origins of the vicious strain and the likely possibility that it spread from unsanitary conditions on factory pig farms.  ...
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• Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 509
  Eating Animals , the searing indictment of factory farming that Jonathan Safran Foer spent three years painstakingly researching, has got the champions of cheap chuck circling their wagons and denouncing the celebrated novelist’s latest work as just another piece of fiction. Chuck Jolley, writing for the Cattle ...
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• More Video of Abused Calves at Vermont Slaughter Plant

  
  Blazing Indiscretions — Authority: 422
  WARNING: Very graphic images: This was at an organic farm in Grand Isle, Vermont skinning a still-living and squirming cow. USDA inspectors were present during the abuse. The Humane Society of the United States went undercover . FoxNews44 reports that the seven-week long investigation led to suspending ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 104
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• BOOKS / Eating Animals : The Beef with Factory Farms

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 570
  Jonathan Safran Foers Eating Animals:A sweeping indictment of factory farms...what we should be talking about is how upward of 99 percent of animals are raised and what it does to them, what it does to the environment, what it does to rural communities, what it does to farmers.By Jessica Roy / November 8, 2009Jonathan ...
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• Help Name Angela’s Piglet

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 507
  Last Thursday’s episode of Bones featured video from factory farms . The show, a murder mystery series, was about the murder of a chicken farmer. But a side story involved the artist Angela ’s desire to sponsor a rescued piglet. She wanted to raise enough money to care for this one piglet… and she found ...
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• Swine Flu Origin | Swine Flu Originated from Pig and Factory Farms?

  
  Health and Wellness: Home Remedies, Natural Cures, Treatment, Causes, Symptoms, Risk Factors, Diagnosis — Authority: 146
  The year 2009 has a lot in common with the years 1918, 1976, and 1998 in the medical front. These years marked the time when the world was put to the edge due to swine flu outbreaks. What is worthy of notice is that each new outbreak is represented by a new strain of virus that seems to be more resilient than the ...
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