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Is Agribusiness Becoming Kinder to Animals?
Celebrity chief Wolfgang Puck agrees with Burger King: animals deserve more humane treatment before they're carved up for America's dinner plates. During a week of Easter and Passover dinners, is the fast-food nation rethinking its eating habits? Is the highly mechanized food industry going organic? Also, freed British marines and sailors say they were tools of Iranian propaganda and, on Reporter's Notebook, what happens when you call 911?
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenCelebrity chief Wolfgang Puck agrees with Burger King: animals deserve more humane treatment before they're carved up for America's dinner plates. During a week of Easter and Passover dinners, is the fast-food nation rethinking its eating habits? Is the highly mechanized food industry going organic? Also, freed British marines and sailors say they were tools of Iranian propaganda and, on Reporter's Notebook, what happens when you call 911?
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3 storiesFreed Britons Speak Out, Describe 'Psychological' Pressure
While they were captives, the British marines and sailors appeared to "confess" that they crossed into Iranian waters. Now home, they tell a very different story .
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Arizona and Florida now ban the raising of pregnant pigs in confining cages. Oregon's Democratic Congressman Peter DeFazio has introduced a federal law to promote more humane treatment of all farm animals.
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The 911 emergency call number has been around for more than 30 years, with the goal of rapid response to impending disaster, medical problems or crimes in progress. Cell-phone technology ought to be bringing us closer to that objective, but in 40 percent of America's counties, it's not.
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