Even More!! Reasons to Vote Republican in 2004

(or, Why I'm Voting Democrat in 2004)

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 Burger King likes to say that customers can "have it their way," but none of the ways to order a Whopper includes the option of meat raised without unnecessary antibiotics even though overuse of antibiotics in agriculture contributes to the emerging public-health crisis of antibiotic resistance.

Since the 1980s a series of mergers and acquisitions has resulted in concentrating over 80% of the 35 million beef cattle slaughtered annually in the U.S. into the hands of four huge corporations.

In North Carolina, for example, corporate hog factories have caused almost a 300-percent increase in the number of hogs -- and the state is now awash in 38 billion pounds of feces and urine from these porkers.

2000 Report: Texas No. 1 in livestock waste pollution