Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Jonathan Safran Foer's pup-in-cheek essay " Let Them Eat Dog " (Weekend Journal, Oct. A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. We carnivores have to become more benevolent.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

A brief look at the public outcry concerning Michael Vick’s dog-fighting ring shows just how widely accepted premise (1) is. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”

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