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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Amy Joy Lanou Washington, May 21, 2007 The writer is senior nutrition scientist, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. May 21, 2007 To the Editor: “Soy milk and apple juice” is not a vegan diet. Kelly New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: Thank you for publishing Nina Planck’s excellent article, “Death by Veganism.”

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.