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Shocking, but true. It is getting so that I am thinking we are getting Fascism in a manner that evokes the metaphor of a frog in a pot of water on a Bunsen burner. We know these factory farms are evil, ugly and dangerous. But what can we do about it?

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By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
forwarded by Irwin Heit

On Friday, most of the country’s major newspapers, including The Times, featured reports from a small town called Clarion, Iowa. Just outside Clarion are the egg operations, owned by the DeCoster family, at the heart of the salmonella outbreak. The factory — no point calling it a farm — called Wright County Egg, is the source of 380 million of the more than 500 million recalled eggs.

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I guarantee you I have eaten my last factory chicken! It's organic only for me after listening to this interview. I'm glad I have been eating only free range chicken eggs for a long time. You can read the transcript below, but if you click the title you will be able to watch and listen to this remarkable interview from today's Democracy Now! PF

from Democracy Now! Aug. 24, 2010.

Amy Goodman We speak with David Kirby about his book Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment. "We need more regulations, and we need enforcement of the regulations," Kirby says. "These [food] companies are self-policing, and they are operating on the honor system. And consumers are obviously paying the price." [includes rush transcript]

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Guaranteeing the American Dream with Expanded Social Security

by Stephen Hill

For millions of Americans, the dream of a secure retirement has been threatened by the Great Recession. Since WWII, retirement has been conceived as a "three-legged stool," with the three legs being Social Security, pensions, and personal savings centered around homeownership.

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