CNN, Oct 28, 2009 - Like most people, I'd given some thought to what meat actually is, but until I became a father and faced the prospect of having to make food choices on someone else's behalf, there was no urgency to get to the bottom of things.

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Time Magazine - September 12, 2009 - Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. The waste produced by the pig and his thousands of pen mates on the factory farm where they live goes into manure lagoons that blanket neighboring communities with air pollution and a stomach-churning stench.

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Vancouver Sun - September 11, 2009 - B.C. has confirmed the its first case of the West Nile virus in horses, after one horse in the South Okanagan and another in the Fraser Valley were found to be infected with the virus.

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Fox News - Septeber 9, 2009 - The Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm President Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar," overcoming months of delay due to Republican concerns that he would push a radical animal rights agenda.

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