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In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's NewYorkTimes , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. Irv Bell's farm is a family farm. It's also a factoryfarm. And all of those are implicit in "farm."
Today's NewYorkTimes 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 factoryfarms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It's a choice.
The NewYorkTimes ' Nicholas D. In " Food for the Soul ," Kristof once again yearns for the farm of his childhood which, for him, had "soul." What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful.
11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factoryfarming. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factoryfarming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov.
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The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factoryfarms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.
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