animal welfare; factory farming; meatrix; vegetarian; vegetarianism

The Recent USDA Beef Recall and Why It Should Matter to the Future of American Consumerism. Recently, the US government called for the recall of the largest amount of beef in U.S. history. To me, this issue is important because industrial-style factory farming is a very environmentally-destructive modern practice. Not only is it posing a huge problem for open space conservation and preservation of natural resources out in the American countryside, but it is obviously a food safety / consumer issue as well. Take a look at the articles here and submit your own / let me know what you think.

Joking apart there is a strong environmental argument for cow genocide. Cows and other livestock are probably the most significant threat to our environment today.

 

We need to cut our dependence on cattle drastically if our civilization is to survive in any semblance of its present form.

"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."

Industrial animal production, the practice of confining thousands of cows, hogs, chickens, or other animals in tightly packed facilities has become the dominant method of meat production in the United States

Meet Moo-pheus who tells us about the horrors of intensive farming, such as animal cruelty, the propogation of antibiotic resistant germs, pollution and destroyed communities