The True Costs
A terrific article, "Rethinking the Meat Guzzler" ran on the front
page of the Sunday New York Times Week in the Review section, exposing
the devastating effects of "growing" animals for food. Mark Bittman, the
author, who is not a vegetarian, warns the reader of the true costs of
industrial meat production, raging from environmental degradation to
human hunger. As he clearly puts it into words, "If price spikes don't
change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation,
pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty
will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and
fewer animals.
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Rethinking the meat-guzzler
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