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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. A violation of trust or confidence, an abandonment of something committed to one's charge. No argument here.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. If we are to live in a more peaceful world, we must abandon the cruelty on our plates. This issue is an important one and needs to be talked about. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif.,