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...Some worry that the livelihoods of small farmers will be threatened as Inner Mongolian agriculture modernizes. Western Cattle is providing farmers with an additional source of income, and the farmers are providing the company with inexpensive labor. But big feedlots in the U.S. are essentially factories, much larger than the biggest in China today, maintaining herds of tens of thousands of animals supplied by dedicated cattle ranches. As the industry grows, farmers could be squeezed out. Even now, they are at the mercy of middlemen like the dairies, which have some control over pricing. The farmers have none. "Only...
...MORE GREAT TASTE But the smaller percentage is now applied to a larger pot of money--one that combines a state grant program with the Urban Area Security Initiative. That ensures that low-risk states will still end up with a big pile of cash...
Villamor said that the study, which appeared in the Sept. 24 issue of Fertility & Sterility, is “unlikely to have a demographic impact on a larger level...
...story—The New York Times, for example, did not begin cover the case until protests mounted earlier this month. This is a shame. For though we shouldn’t need reminding that the racism that this incident points to still exists in America, the larger concern are the holes that this incident highlights in the way our country administers justice...
Whether the discrimination in the case is apparent or real, it serves to reflect on larger injustices that occur across the nation. The American justice system tends to impison black men at disproportionately high rates. Black people are six times more likely than white people to go to jail. Between 2002 and 2004, black youth constituted 58 percent of minors in adult prison...