Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. Their ethological needs and direct interests are neglected to the extent that their needs are not as congruent with higher productivity and profit. Instead it aids industry boards that exist solely to sell animal products.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. 20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

What Is an Animal Part? The last example suggests the difficulty of making a clear distinction between an animal part and an animal product. If a genetically engineered animal’s legs periodically fell off, would not its legs be more like a product of an animal (analogous to eggs) than a part of the animal?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

2, 2011 Note from KBJ: Only someone who doesn't understand torture could think that meat production involves torture. Meat production may be cruel or inhumane, but it is not, literally, torturous. Ken Swensen Pound Ridge, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

[A vegan diet is an entirely plant-based diet centered around whole grains, vegetables, fruit, and beans, and contains absolutely no animal products (i.e., it contains no meat of any sort, no fish, seafood, no dairy products, and no eggs).]

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: It’s mind-boggling that in spite of overwhelming evidence that the consumption of animal products is directly responsible for a host of human diseases , greenhouse gas production and indescribable animal suffering, the general public continues to satiate its taste buds and support factory farming.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild. Nor could he object to the painless killing of wild animals. He will also object to the eating of eggs laid by hens which did not have scope for normal activity. (He Philip E.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2012

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals applauds the efforts of those district attorneys and animal control officers who are enforcing the law against those few chefs who continue to flout it. PETA urges everyone to avoid this product of cruelty to animals. GABE WALTERS Counsel, PETA Foundation Norfolk, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2010

Furthermore, where there was a modest increase detected in raw ground beef components, Beef Products Inc.’s Beef Products’ technology, which has been approved by both the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration—as is thoroughly set forth on its Web site—provides consumers safe products.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

This requirement would at least relieve the worst of the production horrors that are common in the industry now. In fact, there is no justification, economic or otherwise, for the abusive practice of confining animals in spaces barely larger than the volume of their bodies.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Hens in all forms of egg production endure an equally cruel execution once their profitability has declined. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

The United States Department of Agriculture purchases food, including high-fat meat and dairy products, under the direction of Congress based on agricultural surpluses and price support activities to help American agriculture producers. These products are then dumped into schools as part of the National School Lunch program.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

Health care skyrockets out of control mainly because we have no convenient access to fresh produce and tasty, humanely raised meat products. Doesn’t it know that our American diet is killing us and our economy? Americans want to eat the good stuff, but it must be readily available. We’re busy and misinformed.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I do not like being used as a mere means to other people's ends, so please don't try to use this blog to get publicity for some product or service you are selling. I do, however, enjoy publicizing things that are designed to benefit animals. If you have something to which I should link, please send it.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 19, 2006

We are an animal welfare group working for animals in India— www.hopeandanimal.org we have tie up with a US based company for fund raising—If you buy pet products from www.petmedusa.net 10% of sale proceeds are donated to our organisation—Pls Bid and buy the product. with regards, Praveen Ohal

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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. How many more Americans must die before something is done? labor costs and saving the lives of hamburger lovers. Mary Ellen Croteau Chicago, Dec.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

To the Editor: The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases is generated by livestock production, more than by transportation. 9, 2008 Note from KBJ: Some reasons for vegetarianism apply to all animals, from cows, pigs, and sheep to turkeys, chickens, and fish.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Livestock production consumes 70 percent of the water in the American West -- water so heavily subsidized that if irrigation supports were removed, ground beef would cost $35 a pound. Livestock accounts for at least 21 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions globally -- more than all forms of transportation combined.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 28, 2009

Though factory-style production worsens it, the root problem is animal use. Since using animals is cultural, not part of our biological nature or in any way necessary, animal use is by definition inhumane—unkind where we could as a society choose kind. To the Editor: Thank you for Nicholas D.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

After watching the film, the viewer can decide whether giving these animals a few weeks of "a relatively happy life" is humane enough to justify taking these animals' lives for products that no one needs.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

Who exactly is not supposed to eat animals or products of animals? This problem is especially acute with respect to carnivorous animals. What animals is it morally wrong to eat? If animals could be created by genetic engineering, could they be created so that there were no moral objections to eating them?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The animal advocacy group Compassion Over Killing has created a new website to bring attention to the fact that Morningstar Farms continues to use "battery eggs" from caged birds in their products. Here is the link. Congrats on the new site launch, by the way.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 27, 2011

What is the optimal temperature for the alleviation of suffering, for both humans and sentient nonhuman animals? How many different species of animal or plant would there be if the globe warmed, as opposed to how many there are today? What is the optimal temperature for food production? Change per se is neither good nor bad.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Anticorporate activists have campaigned against this and other ag biotech products for years in denial of the demonstrated environmental, economic and health benefits. Susan Levin Washington, June 29, 2007 To the Editor: Urging more hormone injection of cows to increase milk production is backward. George Entenman Chapel Hill, N.C.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

Today, Department of Agriculture inspectors are present in meatpacking plants continuously and are empowered to prevent any product that does not meet federal standards from entering commerce. Bacteria levels on fresh meat products are at the lowest levels in history, according to U.S.D.A.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2009

Here's some background: Most people believe that the "naturally raised" label implies animals have access to sunshine, fresh air, freedom of movement and the ability to perform natural behaviors. Cramped crates aren't natural living conditions for calves and sows.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 10, 2009

Given this potency, an 18 percent reduction in methane emissions from cattle isn’t going to be anywhere near enough to turn dairying or beef production into sustainable industries. (The difference is due to the fact that methane breaks down much more rapidly than carbon dioxide.)

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

There is no reason to limit human production of CO 2 , CH 4 , and other minor greenhouse gases as has been proposed. This will help to maintain and improve the health, longevity, prosperity, and productivity of all people. We also need not worry about environmental calamities even if the current natural warming trend continues.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 5, 2007

To the Editor: “ A Factory Farm Near You ” (editorial, July 31) does not mention any issue of the morality of factory farming—treating living beings as factory products. Cruelty to animals on such a scale should be the centerpiece of any discussion on raising animals for food.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 25, 2007

What Vick did to those dogs is sickening, and the fact that Nike continues to sell products with Vick's name is even more disgusting. Hey there- I thought you might be interested in letting your readers know about the site we just created to start an organized boycott of Nike until they drop Vick's lucrative endorsement deal.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies. Scott Plous Middletown, Conn.,

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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. Eating dead animals and animal products is bad for people, bad for animals and bad for the planet. That is never humane.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 21, 2007

Do fetuses and infants need animal products in order to survive and flourish? See here.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

For example, the Treaty of Amsterdam that came into force on May 1, 1999, formally acknowledged that nonhuman animals are “sentient beings” and not merely goods or agricultural products. The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.”

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

What can I do to stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty, and is it difficult to do so?Here Here are some surprisingly simple things you can do to stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty: (a) Stop eating animals. (b) b) Stop eating animal products. (c)

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

There's only one thing you need to know about Whole Foods Market : It sells animal products, including meat. All the other stuff—organic foods, locally grown fruits and vegetables, environmentally friendly bags—is about status. Isn't it ironic that old hippies, who rejected the "establishment," have become status-seekers?

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