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The meat industry has created a false dichotomy that pits people against animals

The meat industry has created a false dichotomy that pits people against animals

It is a common narrative that factory farming – despite the cruelty to animals, environmental destruction and impacts on human health – has net benefits that make it an important part of society, especially in rural America. It provides affordable meat to our people, creates jobs in small towns, boosts local economies and helps families …

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Analysis: Vegetables are good.  The meat is bad.  Here's how meta-studies can be "interpreted" to provide simplistic results

Analysis: Vegetables are good. The meat is bad. Here’s how meta-studies can be “interpreted” to provide simplistic results

The researchers, who report in Nature Medicine, start here. Lifelong exposure to risk leads to a wide variety of outcomes. Objectively judging the relative impact of these risks on individual and population health is fundamental to individual survival and societal prosperity. Existing mechanisms for quantifying and classifying the magnitude of these myriad effects and the …

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