Animal Ethics

MARCH 3, 2008

The interests in nourishment and in gustatory pleasure lead man to kill and eat cattle, fish, and fowl. This cuts down on the long-range satisfactions of the cattle, the fish, and the fowl. And I believe that in most cases man is morally justified in thus reducing the satisfactions of the food animals.

Lamb 40

Lamb Fowl Morals Animal 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Nor could he object to the painless killing of wild animals.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Morals Cows 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

18): As a microbiologist, I know that study after study has highlighted the human health threat from using antibiotics as feed additives for hogs, chickens and cattle, creating super-bugs—bacteria that no longer can be treated with antibiotics. Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Livestock Chickens 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Families, so the commercials go, don't engage in untoward aspects of animal husbandry that might hurt the cows. Families are just as capable of horrendous policies toward animals as anyone else. Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals. The cows' tails swing in the breeze.

Family 100

Family Factory Farm Factory Farming Cows 100

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. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”

New York Times 40

New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory.

Hunting 118

Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 118