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“Smithfield spilled more than 20 million gallons of lagoon waste into the New River in North Carolina. The spill remains the largest environmental disaster of its kind and is twice as big as the iconic Exxon Valdez 6 years earlier... at the time of the spill, Smithfield was the 7th largest pork producer in the US; two years later it was the biggest.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

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“Animal agriculture is now dominated by the factory farm- 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 97% of laying hens, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

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“For meat, milk, and eggs labelled organic, animals must:

1) be raised on organic feed (without most synthetic pesticides/fertilizers)
2) be traced
3) not be fed antibiotics or growth hormones
4) have "access to the outdoors”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

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“In 1930, more than 20% of the American population was employed in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

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“It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, capitalism, ecology, sustainability, vegan, vegetarian

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