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. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. We all do.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Next, to today's New York Times and Gary Steiner 's fantastic Op-ed called " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,"which begins with: "LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised." (Try Try not to think about the "meat" being "raised" and the "it."

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Animal Person

MAY 29, 2009

If it steers (sorry about the pun) people toward animals raised in places other than factory farms, where they will still be killed, I'm not thrilled. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film Food and Drink Delray Beach Film Festival Food Inc. If more people eat actual food as a result (i.e., My guess is I'll get some of both.

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Animal Person

MARCH 19, 2009

There's already a fairly large number of comments that raise the usual topics against vegans and veganism and I didn't see any Animal Person readers in there, though there's no law that says you have to use the same username everywhere so that might not be evidence of anything. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2016

An explanation is given about how market hunters and the draining of wetlands left no place for migrating waterfowl to land or feed and “ the Great Plains soon became a mass graveyard for migratory birds, raising the question, how do we protect birds from man ?” Respect the routine needs of animals.”

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Yesterday, the world lost its most powerful voice for animal rights, Tom Regan. No one has done more to explain what "animal rights" means and why animals have rights than Tom Regan. As Regan expressed so simply and straightforwardly, what animal rights advocates want is for "people to stop doing terrible things to animals."

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression and I welcome comments (and will respond to the current ones shortly). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. This week I asked "Is this 'War'?" Here's "An Open Letter from Dr. Ray Greek on the Feb. I recommend reading the entire letter.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Here's my attempt to bring it all together in an Animal Person post. As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical. Is raising a good citizen of the planet more important than the carbon footprints of two vegans who live relatively modest lives?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Tom French of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (not, however, any Japanese animators — the “Legacy”, in the world of this book, does not extend to television, which seems a curious omission.).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. Tags: Activism Ethics Film. For all of us.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. He romanticizes his childhood usage of animals as if that was the right way to do it , and he longs for those days. Kristof writes of the "decent and varied lives" that small farms provide animals with.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

That individuals can be harmed without knowing it has important implications for the proper assessment of the treatment of animals. Modern farms (so-called factory farms), for example, raise animals in unnatural conditions. Those animals who are raised intensively, then, let us assume, do not know what they're missing.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Basically the animal was five feet in front of him, and the boy shot him in the head, killing him. The father tells us that the alligator was born and raised on the property. Going to an area where an animal has lived for decades, and hasn't bothered anyone, and killing him is okay. Where's the hunting? Killing them is fun.

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2010

Next, a fellow introvert e-mailed me describing herself as extremely awkward socially as well as invisible and having social anxiety, and asking where/how she might be useful to the animal rights movement. Working or volunteering at an animal sanctuary or shelter or participating (or starting) a Trap-Neuter-Release effort, maybe?

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

You may know Jose Valle of the International Organization for the Abolition of Animal Slavery, AnimalEquality. So, I thought you could be interested in helping us to raise the funds. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

By encouraging people to bake with higher welfare eggs (as well as organic milk, butter and chocolate) vital funds will be raised to campaign against battery cages. Now, I'm the first one to say that when I began blogging I thought the end of the use of animals would never come, so in the meantime, welfare reforms could at least be supported.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Tags: Activism Books Ethics. But that would be unfair.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

While spending hours in the car I've been thinking about various issues related to sentient nonhumans, animal rights and veganism. But I read two types of articles about 4-H: either about how the kids are proud of what they've done, or about how upset they are that the animal they have come to love is going to his or her death.

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Animal Person

APRIL 16, 2009

This is why I didn't campaign for a greyhound--it raises their profile. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Here's a great question I received via direct message on Twitter ( www.twitter.com/mary_martin ): "Do you think that even if Obama had adopted a shelter dog-it still may have caused a run on breeders? Would it matter?"

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article. It's not an ostensible paradox; it's an actual paradox.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2009

Mixing Bowl seems like a great place to raise awareness that perfectly delicious, healthy meals and desserts, including kids' birthday cakes and wedding cakes, can be made without killing anyone. Tags: Activism Ethics Film Meredith Corporation Mixing Bowl Social network service Veganism. And the same is certainly true of my husband.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.

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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.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 21, 2007

To the Editor: I appreciate Nicolette Hahn Niman’s efforts in raising awareness about the conditions in which pigs are raised (“ Pig Out ,” Op-Ed, March 14), but I was struck by her comment that it is incumbent on us to ensure that animals have decent lives because we ask them to make the ultimate sacrifice for us.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. Finally, what of the audience? The hysteria of the crowd surely played a part in escalating an already frightening situation.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. coli bacteria or food additives.

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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.,

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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. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

If people are encouraged to believe that the harm done to animals matters morally only when these animals belong to endangered species, then these same people will be encouraged to regard the harm done to other animals as morally acceptable. This is not what the rights view implies.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2009

Keith, Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, is extremely close to reaching our goal of collecting 10,000 signatures on our "Truth Behind Labels" petition to the USDA to tell them their "naturally raised" label is not natural. We're currently at 9,556 signatures—96% of the way there!

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. Animals with more space are healthier, and they are no less productive.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 29, 2009

While its exact origin is still unclear, this pathogen, and many others (like avian influenza), originated from animals being raised or eaten for food. As the world moves toward raising the majority of animals in the unnatural setting of factory farms, it is likely that more, and worse, such pathogens will arise.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

July 13, 2010 To the Editor: Today tens of thousands of American farmers don’t even own the livestock they raise, and the conditions they raise animals in are dictated to them by a handful of extremely powerful companies that are concerned only with the bottom line. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 28, 2011

Please see below for the press release.

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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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