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...proceeded to spread that proclivity, like a plague, throughout the Western world. Rifkin's real argument, of course, is not with the 1.3 billion bovines that roam the planet but with modern methods of mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated from birth to slaughter brim with righteous indignation. (A reformed carnivore, Rifkin says he swore off beef 15 years ago after taking...
...Action Network, which blames cattle for "killing the Amazon," % to the Fund for Animals, which criticizes the use of poisons and traps to control coyotes that prey on calves. The International Rivers Network blames cattle for wasting scarce water resources, while Food First denounces the feedlot system for wasting grain that could otherwise be used for human consumption...
...Grain fed to cattle could feed the hungry. "Hunger isn't about actual scarcity," declares Stephanie Rosenfeld, a researcher for San Francisco-based Food First. "It's about the maldistribution of resources. People are hungry for different reasons at different times, but quite often the reasons have to do with beef." The link is often very subtle: in countries like Egypt and Mexico, for instance, farmland that formerly grew staples for human consumption is being switched to grow grain for beef that only the wealthy can afford. Indirectly, then, a growing cattle population threatens humans...
...Every guard has his or her own personality, and you don't want to go against the grain of that personality," Muir says...
...total pledge of $5.2 billion, the U.S. has provided $3.5 billion in credit guarantees for grain shipments and $117 million in humanitarian aid, but has spent only $5 million of the $745 million it plans for technical assistance in the next two years. Bush has all along resisted making fast policy moves and quick course corrections. He has been slow to treat Yeltsin as a responsible partner and now hangs back from the conclusion that major new contributions may be necessary to keep his reforms afloat. "Prudence" is how Bush usually describes his decision making. "Timidity," counters Lee Hamilton, chairman...