Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2008

With the price of gasoline topping $4 a gallon, consider what could happen if a rogue state with quiet diesel-electric submarines were to threaten tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. The United States Fifth Fleet will prevent that from happening.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 10, 2010

The United States Department of Agriculture has been broken for a long time, and it is clear that it cannot protect the American public from illness and death from contaminated meat products. This is not unlike what we hear from financial institutions trying to track (or not) derivatives. It’s like trying to grip mercury.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2009

Keith, Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, is extremely close to reaching our goal of collecting 10,000 signatures on our "Truth Behind Labels" petition to the USDA to tell them their "naturally raised" label is not natural. We're currently at 9,556 signatures—96% of the way there!

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2008

One key solution, as you note, rests with the United States Senate: the Law of the Sea Convention. Ratification of the Law of the Sea would send an important message to the more than 150 countries that have already joined the treaty, including all of our allies, that we are committed partners in protecting the planet and its people.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” Half of the sixteen German states already have some sort of animal rights provisions in their constitutions.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 29, 2008

And bird watchers across the United States and Canada face the prospect of a quieter, less colorful spring as a combination of climate change, tropical deforestation, mountaintop mining in the Appalachians and other activities destroys key wintering, breeding and stopover habitats.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. There is no ethical justification for treating an animal inhumanely for no good reason.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

Woodard goes on to note: MRSA is so common in the United States that it accounts for more than half of all soft-tissue and skin infections in ERs. The Bottom Line: The government cares more about protecting agribusiness profits than it does about protecting the health of consumers.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

All these would have to be tagged if the National Animal Identification System becomes mandatory, and for no purpose, because none of my animals will be sold overseas for food. I hope everyone who prefers local and pasture-raised animals will speak up and protect the source of their food and health.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., In the United States, for example, citizens once had to be twenty-one years of age to vote in federal elections; now they must be eighteen. In some countries (e.g.,

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