archive for August 2nd, 2006

Digest: Corn, comment on USDA standards, 25,000 chickens die on a factory farm, and more

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006.

Washington Post: Quarterly earnings of Archer Daniels Midland — the largest U.S. food processor — have more than doubled, helped by increased demand for crop-based fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel, as well as sales of high-fructose corn syrup.
New York Times*: There’s an Organic explosion of yupscale baby food.
IndyStar.com: Twenty-five thousand chickens die from extreme […]

Would you, Could You, Anywhere?

by Erika aka Omniwhore @ Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006.

Ethicurean question of the day: Should omnivores have to kill their own meat?

Vegetarians have long used the question as part of an argument for a green diet. “If you can’t kill it yourself, then you shouldn’t eat it.” Of course, their gamble is that you won’t say, “Why yes, I think I should have to […]

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