Animal Person

OCTOBER 14, 2011

She's napping right now, diaper free. The toy rule is pretty much: Little or no plastic and no batteries. I may be a vegan and an atheist, but I'm really just a parent doing the best I can to give my child the best life possible. We still use the cut up blankets as rags/in place of paper towels.

Vegan 100

Vegan Battery Panama Cats 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens.

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New York Times New York Battery Cages Factory Farm 40