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If you might wish to thank Utne for helping inform about the land-grant-university (LGU) meat problem and ask them to do more on it, send a brief note to editor@utne.com or Editors, Utne Reader, 12 North 12th Street, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55403 -- or ring them up at 612-338-5040 (editors actually answer the phone, but don't take advantage!).
The meatindustry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America.
But then again, it could be due to the fact that we are constantly bombarded with billion-dollar advertising campaigns from the meatindustries, the dairy industry, and the eggindustry, as well as from myriad restaurant chains that promote and sell these very animal products.
On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meatindustry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meatindustry. Below is a press release about the mailing.
The meatindustry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. And if you ever drive around an egg farm, hog farm, slaughterhouse, feeding lot, etc., He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. Here is my opinion.
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