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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I was shocked to read that Gary Steiner thinks his cat can’t appreciate Schubert’s late symphonies.

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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

in today's New York Times, and I couldn't resist posting. A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. And then I read the "OMG!!!!!OED!!!!!LOL!!!!!"

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world.