Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

The U.S. agricultural industry can now produce unlimited quantities of meat and grains at remarkably cheap prices. But it does so at a high cost to the environment, animals and humans. Those hidden prices are the creeping erosion of our fertile farmland, cages for egg-laying chickens so packed that the birds can't even raise their wings and the scary rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria among farm animals. Add to the price tag the acceleration of global ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Digg
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Subjects: Business, Living
Topics: Farming, Food
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# Diggs: 207 (as of 2009-08-20)
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Aug 20, 2009 - 3:32 PM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Aug 23, 2009 - 3:42 PM PDT

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