United Poultry Concerns -
http://www.UPC-online.org/
13 February 2012
"Farm Animal
Angst" on One Green Planet
by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United
Poultry Concerns
Farm Animal Angst: Decoding the Sustainable and
Humane Meat Hysteria
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/farm-animal-angst-decoding-the-sustainable-and-humane-meat-hysteria/
Since the late 1990s, something like mass support for eliminating
factory
farming has grown. Revelations of industrial animal production
practices and
conditions have attracted media coverage, as Internet
images and investigative
reports document how animals in agribusiness are
living and dying horrifically
on factory farms. But while these
revelations have boosted a vegan response,
the prevailing attitude at
present is that while industrial animal farming is
bad, people can
continue to eat animal products that somehow avoid the taint of
"factory
farming." Read more . . .
Farm Animal Angst: Decoding the Sustainable
and Humane Meat Hysteria
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/farm-animal-angst-decoding-the-sustainable-and-humane-meat-hysteria/
Good News! There's still time to register for our Conscious Eating
Conference
at UC Berkeley this Saturday February 18, 2012.
http://www.upc-online.org/forums/2012
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Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the compassionate and
respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
Don't just switch from beef to
chicken. Go Vegan.
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