Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. Premise (4) is widely acknowledged. Trivial or insignificant reasons won’t do.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

To prevent large-scale losses due to disease and also to promote rapid growth, the animals are routinely fed low levels of antibiotics and growth hormones. are fed to farm animals. Meanwhile, protect yourself and your family from such germs by refusing to purchase or consume any meat produced on factory 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. Protect your own health and the future effectiveness of antibiotics: Go vegetarian in 2010! Make a conscious choice to not eat meat.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The fury this meal caused my friends and family back in America motivated me to examine whether eating any animal was justified. My interactions with farm animals have been as affectionate and fun as any I've had with dogs or cats. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,” by Gary Steiner (Op-Ed, Nov. 22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. David Peters New York, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics produced are fed to farmed animals to prevent (not treat) disease. McWilliams insists that vegetarianism is "the most powerful political response we can make to industrialized food. Undigested antibiotics leach from manure into freshwater systems and impair the sex organs of fish.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. Being “kind” to the animals has been great for my quality of life. At 14, as I started making my own choices, my eating habits began to change.

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