Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

A plant-based diet is better for human health, the environment and, obviously, the animals. 20, 2009 The writer is a registered nurse. Instead of complaining about it, we need to examine and revise our own diets. Rina Deych Brooklyn, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 26, 2009

It’s easy to cut meat consumption if you start with one day a week of no meat. People will be pleasantly surprised at how delicious vegetarian food can taste. Bonnie Lane Webber New York, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 29, 2009

March 19, 2009 And this orgy in sadism is termed by some as “art”! I hope we will continue to see the decline in popularity of this remnant of Middle Ages barbarism. Daniel Samuels Armonk, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

9, 2009 The writer is on the staff of the Farm Animal Program, Animal Welfare Institute. New York’s protection of laborers should be a first step toward recognition of the other systemic abuses that occur on farms that, like the long-ignored rights of farm workers, have been constantly disregarded by legislators.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 19, 2009

March 12, 2009 If we insist on a daily practice of having our steak and eating it, too, then we must expect a nice big helping of superbugs on the side. Lisa Eicher East Northport, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 10, 2010

31, 2009 To the Editor: Let me see if I have this straight: We are now feeding our children stuff that used to be reserved for dog food, by treating it with ammonia, in order to save three cents a pound? Perhaps simplifying the whole process would eliminate the need for multiple inspections, saving the U.S.D.A. No outside fat trimmings!

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

9, 2009 The writer is vice president for government affairs, Marine Conservation Biology Institute. Though some commercial fisheries have been well managed, others have been a disaster (Atlantic halibut, Atlantic cod, Hawaiian lobster, sharks). It is now or never for the bluefin. Governments need to step up and do the right thing.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 28, 2009

David Cantor Founder and Director Responsible Policies for Animals Glenside, Pa., June 24, 2009 But our colleges of agriculture and our state and federal governments prefer the problem to the solution, responding to years of reasoned requests for change with public relations exercises.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 29, 2009

Edward Machtinger San Francisco, April 26, 2009 The writer is an associate professor of medicine and director of the Women’s H.I.V. What will it take for us, and our public health leaders, to question our addiction to meat and tolerance of factory farming? Program, University of California, San Francisco.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

June 29, 2009 The writer is chairman of the economics department at George Mason University. Is it treasonous to believe that the threat to our well-being posed by further constraints upon markets is worse than the threat posed by higher temperatures? Boudreaux Fairfax, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

3, 2009 Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and the author of “ The Ethics of What We Eat.” Hence the call to cut down or eliminate meat-eating, especially beef, should be supported by everyone concerned about the future of our planet. Peter Singer Geoff Russell Barry Brook New York, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 13, 2009

Hunting will qualify as a sport only when the hunter fairly chases the animal, on foot, without a weapon, one on one. But hunters are not likely to accept that challenge, because the animals they chase are stronger, faster and smarter. Aland Winnetka, Ill.,

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 25, 2009

April 14, 2009 The writer is the author of a novel about the beginnings of the relationship between humans and wolves. Wolves provide us with an opportunity to discover whether we can coexist with another species, rather than destroying it. And as go the wolves, so may go the world. Dorothy Hearst Berkeley, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

Paying sharpshooters and using helicopters cannot possibly be less expensive than allowing North Dakota hunters to volunteer their time, at no cost, and to take the animal carcasses out of the park themselves—exactly the kind of solution Teddy Roosevelt would have wanted.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

This is commercial activity of a sickening and barbaric type, and the peddlers of this smut should find no safe harbor for it in the First Amendment, just as child pornographers do not have a right to sell films involving the exploitation of children under the banner of free speech.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 10, 2009

Peter Singer Geoff Russell Barry Brook Melbourne, Australia, June 6, 2009 The writers are, respectively, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, an independent researcher in Adelaide, Australia, and professor of climate change at the University of Adelaide.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2010

percent for 2009 versus 0.99 Furthermore, where there was a modest increase detected in raw ground beef components, Beef Products Inc.’s s rate of positives is well below industry averages (0.05 Food safety is the No. 1 goal of industry, government and consumers.

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