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One of my early memories of birds is the abundance of Ospreys I saw after moving from Syracuse, New York downstate to eastern Long Island at the age of eight. I know that Ospreys nest in upstate central New York, but if I saw them there as a child, I don’t recall it (though my father will probably remind me that we did).

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

9): As a dietitian who travels often, I know how challenging finding a healthful vegetarian meal in an airport can be. Unhealthy airport food is a nuisance for vegetarians and vegans, but it affects all exhausted travelers seeking nutritious meals to help them make it to their destinations.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is doubtful that the best approach to conserving grain is to become a vegetarian.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. Animals rescued from so-called humane farming establishments have been found in horrific condition. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 18, 2008

All food that comes from plants is cholesterol-free, so a vegetarian or vegan diet does wonders for lowering cholesterol levels. That is when I went vegetarian. Cholesterol is found only in foods derived from animals, like meat, cheese and eggs. My cholesterol levels have always made my doctors happy.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We call ourselves vegetarians. Vadim Liberman New York, April 23, 2008 And there is no good reason to breed, confine and kill animals for food unless we believe that economic benefit justifies killing. More and more people do not. Patti Breitman Fairfax, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

9, 2008 Note from KBJ: Some reasons for vegetarianism apply to all animals, from cows, pigs, and sheep to turkeys, chickens, and fish. Yet Al Gore does not even mention the need for Americans to reduce meat consumption as we attempt to rescue ourselves from the climate crisis. Michael Radkowsky Washington, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 30, 2007

As a longtime vegan with three vegan-from-birth children, I would like to suggest that since vegetarians are generally healthier than meat eaters, there is no excuse for compassionate people to eat animals.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 2, 2008

I don’t necessarily advocate vegetarianism, but those looking to improve the sustainability of their lifestyles should take a look at their diet. It can take an estimated 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. Reducing meat consumption, particularly of beef, is one of the simplest and most rewarding things we can do.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

22): The solution to scarcity of water in the United States could be solved rather quickly if more people became vegetarians. To the Editor: Re “ Let the East Bloom Again ,” by Richard T. McNider and John R. Christy (Op-Ed, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

4, 2009 To the Editor: I have been a strict vegetarian most of my life, and, as such, I have never lacked reasons—ethical, economic and health-related—to continue this lifestyle. Serge Scherbatskoy Arcata, Calif.,

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows.

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APRIL 2, 2007

The next logical step for those who eat in restaurants is to demand more vegetarian-vegan options on their menus. Eating dead animals and animal products is bad for people, bad for animals and bad for the planet. Judith Abeles San Diego, March 26, 2007

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2011

Hal Herzog writes about how many people who say they are vegetarians will also say they ate meat within the last 24 hours. And of course, many self-identified vegetarians eat fishes and/or chickens. My doctorate in Applied Linguistics from New York University puts me at a considerable disadvantage. Oooo, pick me, pick me!

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

In " Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes " in the Environment section of today's New York Times, Leslie Kaufman reports that American households have become a battleground for beliefs about the environment. She warns wives and mothers not to move a family toward vegetarianism before everyone is ready.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Here is a New York Times blog post about wolf hunting. While this belief might not compel us to be vegetarians, it does demand significant changes in the way we raise animals for food, and it forbids wolf hunting as a form of entertainment. Why does this belief not "compel us to be vegetarians"? Is meat-eating necessary?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. Are they any more or less sentient? I think not.

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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. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original])

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about a vegetarian restaurant in (of all places) France.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

Here is a New York Times story about women who sacrifice cows on the altar of romance. I like the part about vegetarians being pretentious and neurotic. What man wouldn't love a woman who's that shallow? Could anything be more idiotic?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians. Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming? Instead, it seeks to reform it.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

Indeed, the ability of intelligent and educated people to avoid confronting the issue, or to offer endless evasions and rationalizations of delay on a question as straightforward as vegetarianism, even when they have heard and (reluctantly) accepted the argument in favor, is astonishing as well as depressing.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

A shift toward more vegetarian options would indeed benefit us all. Today, we eat well over 220 pounds a year, and it’s not uncommon for many Americans to eat animal products at every single meal. This comes at an enormous cost to animal welfare, the environment and of course public health. We can start at our next meal. 11, 2008

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

I went back to New York to the areas where I grew up and went to college and graduate school for a five-day weekend. Nobody stopped me" brings me to the parents, who were all omnivores (though there were two ex-vegetarians) and who were all thoroughly unaware of the language the children were using to refer to animals.

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