- michael spector quote: Michael Specter, “The Extremist,” The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2003.
- 9 billion chickens a year: Wayne Pacelle, “Mercy, Mercy: Chickens Deserve Same Humane End as Pigs and Cattle,” Humane Society of the United States, 2005.
- windowless sheds 40,000-Associated Press, “Waste Rules May Not Affect Small Farms,” Associated Press Online, 19 Dec. 2002.
- hens cannot lift a wing: Allison Schiff, “Fowl Call: Treat Egg-Laying Hens Humanely,” Twin-Boro News, 28 Jul. 2004.
- male chicks: mench and siegel
- dairy cows seperated from calves-Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, Vintage Books: New York, 1996.
- 10 times as much milk as they would naturally-Joyce D’Silva, “Faster, Cheaper, Sicker,” New Scientist, 15 Nov. 2003.
- pig mutilation-Betsy Freese, “No Shortcut to Pig Welfare,” Successful Farming, Aug. 1999, p. 22.
- sow gestation crates: 9 The Humane Society of the United States, “Maryland: Support Minimum Crate Size for Pregnant Pigs,” HSUS Online, 2005.
- gestation crates banned: The European Union, “Animal Health and Welfare: Pigs,” The European Union Online (Europa), 2005.
- chicken conscious: Gail Eisnitz, Slaughterhouse, Prometheus Books: Amherst, New York, 1997, p.166.
- world hunger:George Monbiot, "Why Vegans Were Right All Along," Guardian Unlimited, 24 Dec. 2002.
- going hungry-1 Alex Kirby, "Hungry World 'Must Eat Less Meat,'" BBC Online, 15 Aug. 2004.
- nitrous oxide-H. Steinfeld et al., Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options, Livestock, Environment and Development (2006).
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