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Growing meat in a lab environment rather than in densely populated factory-farms where diseases spread rapidly increasing the risk of foodborne pathogens such as e coli and salmonella is another upside, earning more support for the technology.
Organic Authority.com: McLab Burgers Coming Soon? New Advances in Lab-Grown Meat Technology Say Yes Organic Authority.com 2011
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There are numerous examples from my daily life that reveal my own willful ignorance -- overuse of electricity when others have none, not recycling all the time, throwing away food, wearing animal products without knowledge of whether they were derived from factory-farms, buying products that may have human slavery in the supply-chain without knowing so, and the list goes on and on.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.: Willful Ignorance: Penn State, Don't Ask - Don't Tell, and Others Ph.D. Susan Smalley 2011
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That's right - in the lead paragraph, he derides the "wild theory" about factory-farms; and in the next he says the virus jumped from species to species to people, who live ever closer together.
David Kirby: Reuters Mangles Flu Story and Blasts "Wild Theories" About "Evil Factory Farms" 2009
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Sadly, most of the meat, egg, and dairy companies that pretend to be eco - or animal-friendly, with packages covered in pictures of pretty red barnyards, are basically the same massive corporately owned factory-farms but with a newly hired advertising consultant.
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Polyface Farms in Shenandoah Valley, PA is a model of good process: his cows eat grass (as opposed to corn, which fattens them but which they were not built to digest), living their short lives out in fields rather than factory-farms.
PopMatters Cynthia Fuchs 2010
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The factory-farms being applied for in the Mackenzie Basin are the opposite.
frogblog 2009
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That's what is being applied for in the case of the Mackenzie Basin factory-farms.
frogblog 2009
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It goes without saying that if one lists opposition to the cruelty of factory-farms as a key reason for not to eating meat, than one should have a problem with factory-farmed dairy and egg products.
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Meanwhile, rich countries continued subsidizing corporate factory-farms that needed huge quantities of fossil fuel to run mega-tractors, use petrochemical fertilizers and transport food around the world.
Spero News 2008
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