Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

Groups like the American Veterinary Medical Association support these modern egg-laying housing systems. These modern systems allow hens to stand up, turn around, lie down and walk to clean water and nutritious food troughs.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

4, 2009 To the Editor: I have been a strict vegetarian most of my life, and, as such, I have never lacked reasons—ethical, economic and health-related—to continue this lifestyle. Serge Scherbatskoy Arcata, Calif., He said, “I have to look at the entire industry, not just what is best for public health.”

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2008

Traces of analgesics, antidepressants, antibiotics, antihistamines, anti-hypertension drugs, anti-seizure medications, and birth control hormones are turning up in the Nation's municipally-delivered drinking water and also in our rivers, lakes, and streams. Today, people have to worry about much more than fluoride in their water.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 25, 2007

To the Editor: “ For ‘Animal Precinct,’ Reality Subject to Dispute ” (news article, July 23) missed the entire point of comprehensive animal welfare: that effective animal welfare requires both response and prevention. The real story here is our tireless commitment to fighting animal cruelty.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2007

Why is it that so many progressives think it's silly to accord moral status to animals? Then again, progressives think abortion is merely a medical procedure, devoid of moral significance. The author, Daniel Lazare, is hostile to vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2007

They have the best food money can buy, climate-controlled shelter, comfortable bedding, ample exercise, liberty to move about, toys to play with, and medical care (including control of parasites). How many are suffering for lack of food, fuel, shelter, clothing, or medical care? Some, such as my niece's Tag, are utterly spoiled.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, management and husbandry are more important than the type of production system for ensuring the health and well-being of pigs. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

7, 2008 The writer is director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan. To the Editor: The argument made by Gov.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

The medical journal Lancet recently published findings showing that children who are not adequately nourished in the first five years of life sometimes never catch up to their peers. Many adults do not understand the difference between feeding a baby, a child and themselves.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

There is as yet no medical research showing the cost of several extra years of hormones flooding the system. To the Editor: What parent or teacher has not noticed that girls are maturing far earlier than they used to? Years are being stolen from their childhoods. These added years will extend the time their bodies deal with adult hormones.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 21, 2007

18, 2007 The writer is associate director, Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Preservation of nature is not just an abstract aesthetic issue; our future depends on survival of things that fit. Epstein, M.D. Boston, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

159) As these nutritional experts attest, there is only one animal product that all children should be fed and that animal product is human breast milk. There simply is no dispute in the medical community that human breast milk is the best food a human infant can be fed.

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