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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Nina Planck’s article touches on a particularly important topic. Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy.

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

Animal Person

The article, by the way, touts the technological advancement that allows the sperm of dairy bulls to be "sexed," thereby allowing dairy farmers to choose to "produce" more females, who are more valuable to them. (See the entire slide show, Happy Cows: Behind the Myth, here.). And the day-old calves. forcibly taken from their mothers, penned.

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