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Elaine Sloan NewYork, Jan. Raising livestock is the best use of most pasture land, not growing crops. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan. We have become the pigs, and we are paying the price with our health. We reap what we sow.
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To the Editor: Mark Bittman wants to outlaw confined livestock feeding operations because, he says, they harm the environment, torture animals and make meat less safe (“ A Food Manifesto for the Future ,” column, Feb. If they are, producers are subject to fines up to $37,500 per day under tough new federal regulations.
In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers. Bernard Burlew NewYork, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Janet Treadaway NewYork, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: I, too, am a farm boy.
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But today these livestock operations don’t have to be unwelcome neighbors in their communities. Yes, concentrated animal feeding operations, or “factory farms” as you call them, are a key feature of modern agriculture. And, yes, they are increasing in number as farmers attempt to survive the challenges of modern global agricultural economics.
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