How can biased press have an affect on what you read?
Compare these two reports on the same health conference.
This one makes you think red meat causes cancer
This one says there is no relationship between the two

P.E.T.A. wants the Green Bay Packers to be the Pickers

Is vegetarianism really healthy?

Is soy the answer?

The real story of beef.

Because crowding creates a prime atmosphere for disease, animals on factory farms are fed and sprayed with huge amounts of pesticides and antibiotics, which remain in their bodies and are passed on to the people who eat them, creating serious human health hazards.
There are strict guidelines as to how much antibiotics and pesticides can be in animals sent to the slaughterhouse. Failure to meet these limits can result in fines, loss of income from the animals and other things that would preclude any sane farmer from acting in this manner..

Cattle raised for beef are usually born in one state, fattened in another, and slaughtered in yet another. They are fed an unnatural diet of high-bulk grains and other "fillers" (including sawdust) until they weigh 1,000 pounds. They are castrated, de-horned, and branded without anesthetics.
Why should interstate cattle feeding be of any consequence? Most cattle are fed hay or allowed to pasture for most of their life. Grain is normally fed in the last few months to bring the animal up to weight. While branding may be painful dehorning and castration are usually bloodless and not painful. There are no nerves in horns...they are like fingernails. Castration is usually done in 2 bloodless ways. Either by crushing the vas deferens (Which is done without anesthetics because it does not hurt the animal) or by applying a tight rubber band to the top of the scrotum as a calf and allowing the scrotum to naturally dry up and fall off. Sounds weird but is painless.

Calves raised for veal--the male offspring of dairy cows--are the most cruelly confined and deprived animals on factory farms. . When they are slaughtered at the age of about 16 weeks, they are often too sick or crippled to walk. One out of every 10 calves dies in confinement.
This is too silly to even be believed. It is against the law to transport animals that cannot walk to the slaughterhouse. And why on earth would a farmer who raises calves for a living allow 10 percent of his profit to die?