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6. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, North Carolina Pig Farm
Investigation, narrated by James Cromwell, VHS, 2002.
7. Eisnitz, Slaughterhouse, p. 75.
8. A Cow at My Table, produced by Jennifer Abbott, VHS, 1998.
9. Joby Warrick, “Modern Meat: A Brutal Harvest. They Die Piece by Piece”
Washington Post, April 11, 2001.
10. Lance Gompa, professor of industrial and labor relations at Cornell University, lead
researcher in Human Rights Watch’s report Blood Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights
in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants, January 2005. See also Steven Greenhouse,
“Human Rights Watch Report Condemns U.S. Meat Packing Industry For Violating
Basic Human And Worker Rights,” New York Times, January 25, 2005. According
to Gompa, “Dangerous conditions are cheaper for companies—and the government
does next to nothing.”
11. Eisnitz, Slaughterhouse, pp. 172, 174, 271, 274.
12. Ibid., p. 273.
13. Though neither the industry nor government keeps figures on the percentage of animals
improperly stunned before being cut and bled and either skinned or scalded, and
because they don’t want anyone else to know about this, we have to rely mainly on
the testimony of the workers themselves, as found, for example, in Eisnitz’s
Slaughterhouse. According to farmedanimal.net, a study in Germany found one third
of chickens under-stunned, one third properly stunned, and one third overly stunned.
14. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Victims of Indulgence, VHS.
15. Donald McNeil, “KFC Supplier Accused of Animal Cruelty,” New York Times, July
20, 2004.
16. Eisnitz, Slaughterhouse, pp. 92–93.
17. Ibid., p. 87.
18. Fox, p. 95.
Chapter 11—Profiting From Destruction
1. The Fertilizer Institute, U.S. Fertilizer Statistics, http://www.tfi.org/Statistics/USfertuse2.asp.
2. Albert Gore, Introduction to Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1962, 1994), p. xix, cited in Howard Lyman, Mad Cowboy (New York:
Scribner, 1998), p. 72.
3. Lee Hitchcox, Long Life Now (Berkeley: Celestial Hearts, 1996), p. 59.
4. Ron Eisenberg and Virgil Williams, “Cost of a Meat-based Diet—for Your Body
and for the Planet,” The Argus: 4-Bay Area Living, June 2, 2000.
5. Robin Hur and David Fields, “Are High-Fat Diets Killing Our Forests?” Vegetarian
Times, February 1984; cited in John Robbins, Diet for a New America, pp. 360–361.
Hur and Fields estimate 260 million acres, which is 406,000 square miles of deforested
land, and a rate of one acre every 5 seconds. Conservatively reducing their estimate
to one acre every 8.5 seconds, we arrive at the estimates in the text.
6. Ibid.
7. Mario Giampietro and David Pimentel, Food, Land, Population and the U.S.
Economy, Executive Summary, Carrying Capacity Network, November 1994.
8. Eisenberg and Williams, “Cost of a Meat-based Diet.”
9. Giampietro and Pimentel, Food, Land, Population and the U.S. Economy.
10. William Lagrone, “The Great Plains,” in Another Revolution in US Farming?,
Scherz, et al., USDA, ESCS, Agricultural Economic Report No. 441, December
1979, cited in John Robbins, Diet for a New America (Walpole, NH: StillPoint,
1987), p. 370.
11. John Robbins, The Food Revolution, p. 237.
12. Cited in Ibid., p. 237.
13. Ibid., p. 266.