Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild. Such a vegetarian will, however, object to the drinking of milk, since the production of milk requires a painful separation between cow and calf.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism. Yet the turkey she raises is a much smaller factor in advancing global warming than the cattle on her ranch because they produce meat much more efficiently. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat.

New York Times 40

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

That doesn't mean that 99% of dairy products are from family farms , as the average number of cows on each family farm is just over 100. Families, so the commercials go, don't engage in untoward aspects of animal husbandry that might hurt the cows. The cows' tails swing in the breeze.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land.

New York Times 40

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