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Sometimes it is easy to see why people just throw up their hands and ignore issues of the health and ethics of food choices. Take the egg. Please.

Catherine Price writes in the New York Times about the different labels that one has to slog through when deciding on an egg, starting with grade and size, then going through cage free, free range, pasture raised, American Humane Certified, Organic, Vegetarian Fed, No Hormones, and No antibiotics. Oh, and don't forget the Omega 3!

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There are myriad reasons to eat less meat or at least eat local and "happy meat" that has been raised on grass and treated properly. Here is another that I didn't know:

Current regulations allow cattle to be transported for up to 52 hours without water, food or rest. Pigs, horses or poultry can be without water, food or rest for 36 hours. Transport trucks don't have heating or cooling, so imagine a trip from Alberta to Texas in winter.

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