{"id":1939,"date":"2006-03-01T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/03\/01\/the-price-we-pay-for-animal-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2006-03-01T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T01:38:00","slug":"the-price-we-pay-for-animal-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-price-we-pay-for-animal-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price We Pay for Animal Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmsanctuary.org\/gallery\/sugarbear_ca2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.farmsanctuary.org\/gallery\/sugarbear_ca2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Thanks to Susan Weiner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmsanctuary.org\/index.htm\">Farm Sanctuary<\/a> for pointing me to her organizations network of websites &#8212; this has to be one of the most comprehensive resources available on factory farming, animal rights, vegetarianism, and many other related topics.  Some of the more interesting resources I found were the information from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoryfarming.com\/\">FactoryFarming.com<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoryfarming.com\/environment.htm\">environmental<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoryfarming.com\/health.htm\">human health<\/a> costs of factory farming, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegforlife.org\/earth.htm\">environmental case for vegetarianism<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegforlife.org\/\">VegforLife.org<\/a>. I&#8217;ve just scraped the surface at this point, but there&#8217;s much more information here that I&#8217;ll be coming back to read.<\/p>\n<p>Susan particularly asked me (and I&#8217;m happy to oblige) to point to the organizations campaigns on behalf of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nodowners.org\/\">&#8220;Downed Animals,&#8221;<\/a> and against the production of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nofoiegras.org\/\">foie gras<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noveal.org\/\">veal<\/a>.  Farm Sanctuary has also targeted Chef Wolfgang Puck for his &#8220;huge hand in promoting both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nofoiegras.org\/wolfgang.htm\"><b>foie          gras<\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noveal.org\/wolfgang.htm\"><b>&#8216;white&#8217;          veal<\/b><\/a> among American consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, I&#8217;m not a vegetarian, though, more and more, I do recognize that my diet, and the typcial American diet, exacts huge costs on our health and our environment, as well as on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegforlife.org\/earth.htm#global\">the economic well-being of other parts of the world<\/a>. I have cut way back on my consumption of meat, though, and frequently eat vegetarian meals &#8212; I&#8217;m glad to see that Farm Sanctuary supports such incrementalism in moving away from an animal-based diet. I&#8217;ll be reading more widely here, and thinking more and more about transitioning to a more sustainable diet.  And I&#8217;m happy to take any suggestions from our vegetarian\/vegan readers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Photograph courtesy of Farm Sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/farming\" rel=\"tag\">farming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/agriculture\" rel=\"tag\">agriculture<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/animals\" rel=\"tag\">animals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/vegetarianism\" rel=\"tag\">vegetarianism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/environment\" rel=\"tag\">environment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/health\" rel=\"tag\">health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/organization\" rel=\"tag\">organization<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Susan Weiner at Farm Sanctuary for pointing me to her organizations network of websites &#8212; this has to be one of the most comprehensive resources available on factory&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Price We Pay for Animal Agriculture &#8226; 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