Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The Factual table I posted yesterday annoyed me a bit, and here's why: the categories "vegan," "vegetarian," and "vegan-friendly." Vegan: Got it. Vegetarian, I assume, serves no flesh but does serve other, equally disturbing animal products. It was a fabulous vegan meal. So what does "vegan-friendly" really mean?

Vegan 100

Vegan Vegetarian Chicago Ethics 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

Every day, some people make the switch to entirely plant-based vegan diets. Consider, e.g., the traditional low animal-protein diets in rural China and the vegetarian diets of 15 million Jains.) See whether your desire for meat doesn't wane in the absence of larger-than-life images of animal products flashing across the screen.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Industry Meat Industry 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