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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

If the goal is not moral perfection for ourselves, but the maximum benefit for animals, half-measures ought to be encouraged and appreciated. How far do we go in protecting them? Mr. Steiner rightly rejects this view as morally flawed. My moral boundaries may be rational or reflexive, expansive or selfish—who can judge?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. JILLIAN PARRY FRY Baltimore, Feb. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va., 20, 2012 The writer is a doctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.