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5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The NewYorkTimes for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. Now, with mounting public awareness, the meatindustry may soon realize that investment in sustainable practices is not just a nice idea. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.
To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. 27): Mark Bittman answered my prayers by writing an article exposing how the meatindustry contributes to global warming, world hunger and other issues plaguing our world. Elaine Sloan NewYork, Jan. Brian O’Reilly Montclair, N.J.,
What will it take for us, and our public health leaders, to question our addiction to meat and tolerance of factory farming? The meatindustry is environmentally devastating, incredibly inhumane and now potentially the end to us all.
To the Editor: Re “ 100 Years Later, the Food Industry Is Still ‘The Jungle,’ ” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, Jan. 2): Yes, 100 years ago Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the plight of the immigrant and focused in part on the meatindustry.
It’s a terrible but ultimately not surprising tale, given the continued lack of self-regulation and the emphasis on profit over safety in the meatindustry. The only way the meatindustry will change its ways is for people to stop buying ground beef and cause sales to plummet.
That system may treat sentient animals like car parts, ruin antibiotics we need for human medicine, and destroy rural communities by polluting our air and water, but at least it’s “efficient” (a word Mr. Hurst hammers three times).
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