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Ooo, a resolution! Take that côte de veau!
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Factory farms are exactly what you would design if you were trying to come up with the most efficient possible way to generate new disease strains.
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Since when does seattle have factory farms?
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I have little confidence that much in the industry will change before some sad catastrophe occurs.
Factory farming shows little to no respect for the animals involved. And apparently little respect for humans and society either. Its a moral abomination, driven by the demands of profit.

Limit your own exposure:
- Don't eat meat at restaurants, unless you know it is sourced from a healthy farm.
- Don't eat meat.
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go veggie.
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Housing animals indoors is a kind act-- the old way of doing it means they freeze to death. I understand that some here object to factory farms, but saying that they have no respect for the animals involved is wrong.
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@6: Housing animals indoors as opposed to outdoors is better in certain climates, and for certain animals, sure, but um, when you're housing animals in cages so small they can't move, and are covered in their own feces, it's indicative that perhaps indoors isn't so much about respect for the animals as it is preventing people from seeing what's going on. Thus the laws which call it TERRORISM if you film inside a factory farm and it hurts their profits.
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I run a small farm - we raise mostly poultry and pigs. It costs us just under $4/lb to 'grow' a packaged pork chop. That figure is based on feed, processing fees, packaging fees and depreciation of capital costs - fencing, housing..etc. It does not include the cost of labor. We sell our pork from $5-9/lb depending on cut and quantity. In comparison, you can buy pork at the supermarket for $1-3/lb for similar cuts (not similar quality).

When the majority of people are able to pay 3-5x the current prices for food (How about raising the minimum wage to $25-30?), then you can take a genuine stand against factory farming.
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The claims that we should be worried about drug-resistant bacteria in our food are kind of ridiculous. First, there's no link between the uptick in infections among humans of drug-resistant bacteria on account of overuse in farming-- that is a problem with NOT COOKING MEAT PROPERLY. If you get salmonella, it sucks! Sure, it sucks more if that strain of salmonella is drug resistant, but who is to blame? The farmer or the cook? Bacteria is everywhere, including AB resistant bacteria. It's in all of our food, and it's probably on your hands right now. Take a look at over prescription in people, there's a much more obvious problem there.
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Enjoy your well-cooked shit covered cantalope.
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A democratic disturbance in the profitsphere?! Monsanto Defense Force: Comments Section Unit: Activate!
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Good luck trying to get this past the pharma companies, who are making most of their money (in antibiotics anyways) from feeding this shit to factory farmed animals. These companies are not just going to give up 80% of their business without a fight. They have deep lobbying pockets and politicians are not known for acting in behalf of the well-being of their constituents.
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@12 actually ranchers and the FDA are already working to phase out prophylactic use of antibiotics. This shouldn't have to be a legislative issue.
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The problem with factory farms is not the antibiotic resistance, but it's the fact that animals are so cruelty confined in factory farms that the industry gives them antibiotics to prevent disease. Get rid of factory farming, and you get rid of the need to feed the animals non-therapeutic antibiotics.
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Good luck when this ignorant legislation passes, meat prices skyrocket, and drug resistant bacteria continue to increase. But smugness will have won again.

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