Articles by Katja Thimm
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Giving Up Meat for a Better World
Katja Thimm - Spiegel,
23 Aug 2010
Industrial-scale poultry farmers inject birds with “broths” and salty solutions, so that they look plump in the store and their meat is more flavorful. Hog farmers cut off the teeth of piglets and rip out their testicles — without anesthesia. In tuna fishing, 145 other species — fish, birds and mammals — are also caught in the nets, where they die and are subsequently tossed back into the ocean. Factory farming accounts for between 18 and 51 percent — depending on the study — of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The biggest offenders are cows, which release methane during digestion. Methane is 23 times as harmful to the climate as CO2. Some factory farms are so big that they produce more excrement every day than some major cities.
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