Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. It's the one that matters most to beings who simply want to live their lives without betrayal, disrespect, enslavement and slaughter.

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Gestation Crates Farming Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

They do appear to wish to put an end to what they believe are the worst abuses of institutionalized animal agriculture, such as gestation crates and veal crates, but that's hardly a call to end animal agriculture. I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity.

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Veal Crate HSUS Vegan Gestation Crates 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates.

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Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40