2008Jan27: “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,” wrote Mark Bittman in his New York Times article, “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler” (NY Times, 2008).
Reference: New York Times. 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html
Image Description: Concentrated animal feeding operation. Source: EPA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Confined-animal-feeding-operation.jpg Image Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
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