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Food Industry Dictates Nutrition Policy

Health & Wellness (tags: illness, health, Factory Farms, diet, disease, risks, safety )

Tierney
- 20 days ago - organicconsumers.org

New York (CNN) -- Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health, most obviously the now-widely recognized relat

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mary f. (74)

Thursday November 5, 2009, 3:30 pm
ending factory farming would be a major step

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marilyn s. (99)

Friday November 6, 2009, 7:24 am
Thanks T...

DITTO Mary!!!!!

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Daniel Barker (2)

Friday November 6, 2009, 9:56 am
Yes, and Bill Clinton ate at McDonald's when he was running for president, and you guys ate it all up and said how good he was.

I have been flexitarian since May, 1992, and believe in free-range farming. I supported Prop. 2 in California, and work with Farm Sanctuary to get it nation-wide.

We know growing corn to fatten livestock is a sin (as well as for fuel/alcohol and sweetener), obviously we know giving livestock growth hormone and massive anti-biotics is wrong.

Things are starting to change.

A good first step is reminding our meat-eating friends it takes forty times the fossil fuel to produce a pound of protein from feedlot beef as from soybeans.

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