Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The problem of the unjust use of farm animals is large, growing, historical, institutionalized, governmentally encouraged, and fundamentally unregulated at either the state or federal level. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. Instead it aids industry boards that exist solely to sell animal products.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming Factory Farm 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hi Keith, You may be interested in a new post on Ethics Soup regarding rights of farm animals. Ethics Soup is a fairly new blog and I'm looking for ways to drive traffic to the blog to gain some readers. If you find this post informative, would you consider providing a link to it?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.'

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New York Times New York Farm Sanctuary Gestation 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

On the one hand, it improves the lives of many farm animals. In the long run, measures such as this may make things worse for farm animals. I'm ambivalent about the proposition. On the other hand, it entrenches the idea that they may be used as mere means to human ends.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

9 editorial “ Justice on the Farm ” describing a “visit to a duck farm in Sullivan County where workers toil through exhausting shifts to force feed poultry for foie gras” encapsulates one of the fundamental problems facing agriculture today: the perpetual chain of exploitation that occurs on many farms.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

But the Bush Administration reversed that decision five days before it was going to take effect after receiving several hundred letters from drug companies and farm animal trade groups.

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Meat Meat Industry Farm Animal Farmed Animals 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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