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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The exploitation of farm workers reverberates in the treatment of farm animals and degradation of the environment. 9, 2009 The writer is on the staff of the Farm Animal Program, Animal Welfare Institute. 9, 2009 The writer is on the staff of the Farm Animal Program, Animal Welfare Institute.

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

We eat animals, and the CAFO system is an evil, filthy, cruel one, but it doesn't have to be that way. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. Our own legislators have put us in this position because they and their friends benefit from it.

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