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• BOOKS / 'Eating Animals' : The Beef with Factory Farms

  Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals:A sweeping indictment of factory farms...what we should be talking about is how upward of 99 percent of animals are raised and what it does to them, what it does to the environment, what it does to rural communities, what it does to farmers.By Jessica Roy [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:55pm EST
  

• American Health Care : Monster Run Amok

  Cartoon by RS Janes / LTSaloon.Once the envy of the world...The American health care disgraceBy Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / November 7, 2009Between 1910 and 1970 American medicine was the envy of the world. The giants of American culture were its physicians: William Osler. Howard Kelly, [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:29pm EST
  

• Real Unemployment Rate : Closing in on the Great Depression

  Good times around the corner?Real unemployment rate at 17.5 percentThis economic disaster was created by far too many years of Reagan-Bush-supply-side-trickle-down-union-busting-corporate-welfare-market-driven economic policy.By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / November 7, 2009Yes, I know the federal government says the unemployment rate is now 10.2% -- up from 9.8% after [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:09am EST