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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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An Affront to the Idea of Family

Animal Person

The cows are walking around green fields, similar to those in the criminally misleading California cows commercials. And they certainly wouldn't hurt anybody; that's what those big factory farms do that aren't owned by families. Just ask former cattle rancher Howard Lyman , who is now a vegan and animal rights activist.

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