Prop. 2
(Oct. 16, 2008) Editor:
There are no legitimate arguments against the passage of Proposition 2, “The Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act” (“Whither the Factory Farm,” Oct. 9). It’s the right thing to do for the animals and for the environment. Further, as the Arcata farm owner you interviewed intimated, higher prices for meat and eggs can have beneficial consequences for both individuals and society as a whole. If people ate less meat and fewer eggs, they would be healthier and less of a drain on our health system.
For example, higher prices for eggs would be a blessing for the senior citizens you mention since the agency which provides them with eggs would most likely be forced to find them healthier sources of protein or cut down on their egg allotment. Their chances would thus be reduced of ingesting pesticides, growth hormones and diseases as well as having heart problems. (A chicken’s egg yolk is 80 percent fat, most of it saturated. Indeed, an egg contains the most concentrated source of cholesterol in the human diet. As a result, studies like that of the University of Minnesota have proven that eating one and a half eggs a day raises the risk of a heart attack by 32 percent!)
Please vote for more humane treatment for California’s pigs, calves, and chickens. It will not only benefit those animals but we human animals as well.
— Nancy and Bob Breslin, Trinidad
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