The suffering of turkeys and chickens is as bad. They are more than likely raised in packed confinement barns where they are so crazed that their beaks are cut off when they are babies so they don't peck out the eyes of their neighbors. Most never go outside until they are taken to the slaughter house or soup factory. Cows and ducks raised on factory farms experience similar suffering and misery during their entire lives. People who sell or eat meat from suffering animals are partners in the cruelty.
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Return to Menu Fuels Ethanol , an alcohol distilled from biomass, emits substantial quantities of acetaldehyde, which can speed ozone formation. The global warming implications of ethanol use depend upon the fossil fuel intensity of the agricultural production process. In the U.S. total carbon dioxide emissions from ethanol production are estimated to be 63 percent less on an energy-unit basis that those from gasoline production and combustion. Methanol would yield some reductions in ozone formation, vehicles powered by this fuel produce two to five times more formaldehyde, a probable human carcinogen, as do those running on gasoline. And if methanol is made from coal, as it might well be if it were relied on in a substantial way, emissions of the primary greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, would be 20-160 percent higher than from gasoline.