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...distortionary subsidy system at the source of these ills. Artificially cheap grain has helped make it more economical to intensively confine grain-fed animals than to raise them on healthier pastures—a recent Tufts University study pegged the implicit subsidy to factory farmers at $24 per hog...
...allow the allegations against me to taint this good and honest man," Blagojevich said in making the appointment. Answering questions at the press conference, Burris was eventually overwhelmed by queries aimed at Blagojevich, who returned to the podium to say, "I don't want to hog the limelight," and defended his right to appoint Burris, insisting it was to preserve the prerogatives of the people of Illinois. Then Congressman Bobby Rush of Illinois joined them at the mike to point out how important it was to appoint an African American to the seat, arguing that the Senate would not want...
...competition for money - which will surely intensify as new bank holding companies like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and American Express amp up efforts to attract deposits - is also squeezing banks' profit margins, further straining an already weak industry and stressing smaller banks, many of which didn't go hog wild making risky loans in the first place. "Higher rates are a short-term fix," says Camden Fine, president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America. "Eventually, you feel the aftereffects...
...Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy,” “horrible, wonderful, [and] important” and, reading his descriptions of factory farming, it’s easy to see why. A journalist by training, Scully traveled to a typical industrial hog farm in North Carolina—owned by the nation’s largest pork producer—and documented what...
Everything But The Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern SpainJohn BarlowFSG; 306 pages...