By SALLY SCHUFF, Feedstuffs Magazine, September 15, 2008
HERE is a challenge for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS): Try to understand the purpose of animal agriculture before you are blamed for a major mistake.
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Ron Eade, The Ottawa Citizen, 2006.09.06
A distressed mother sent me a plea for help the other day after discovering her 22-year-old daughter on the Internet, reading radical websites posted by animal rights activists.
As you may expect, the vitriolic hyberbole convinced her daughter to immediately stop eating meat. She, in turn, tried to convert her mother.
This misplaced sense of moral rectitude is largely due to a tsunami of misinformation that has overwhelmed our pop culture in matters concerning food. (No surprise, really, considering that a scant two per cent of Canadians today are farmers compared to more than half the population a century ago.)
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By KIM HARLESS, February 26, 2007, Farmers Advance (OHIO)
The public has many misconceptions about the modern food system. Many of those misconceptions have been developed by authors with fine intentions, but a serious lack of understanding.
Unfortunately, once a so-called “fact” is in print, it is often repeated endlessly and used to build other “facts.”
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The Ottawa Citizen , 2002.07.08
Peter Singer, the well-known Princeton University ethicist and philosophical godfather of the animal rights movement, told delegates at a recent animal rights conference in Washington, D.C. that Christianity is to blame for the mistreatment of animals.
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By S.L. Davis, Department of Animal Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.
Published in the Proceedings of the Third Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, 2001, pp 440-450.
Introduction
Although the debate over the moral status of animals has been going on for thousands of years (Shapiro, 2000), there has been a resurgence of interest in this issue in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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