Critter News
MAY 18, 2009
Last week, the City of Ghent in Belgium started eating vegetarian one day a week. It's their way of acknowledging the impact of livestock on the environment. Not only is there reason to believe that livestock contribute to greenhouse gases, but meat is resource-intensive to produce.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2022
Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own. Good birding and happy drinking! Castellare di Castellina: Chianti Classico (2019).
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Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2008
Modern livestock farming on a grand scale also wastes a colossal amount of feed grains on animals which, in times past, would simply have fed off the land. But even this fails to establish a case for vegetarianism. More specifically, they eat far more meat than is necessary to maintain adequate nutrition. One can only agree.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale."
Critter News
APRIL 1, 2009
In my opinion, and I am a vegetarian, the second definition of humane is the MINIMAL that we should expect. There is an abundance of information on the web about undercover investigations, livestock conditions, slaughter procedures, etc. Livestock don’t contribute to campaigns, but agribusiness does.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
To the Editor: The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases is generated by livestock production, more than by transportation. 9, 2008 Note from KBJ: Some reasons for vegetarianism apply to all animals, from cows, pigs, and sheep to turkeys, chickens, and fish.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2011
And I suspect that people become vegetarians for precisely that reason: that by doing so they overcome the residue of guilt that attaches to every form of hubris, and in particular to the hubris of human freedom. But it is a real question, one of many that people now ask, as the old forms of piety dwindle.
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