Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

Compassionate consumers can take a stand against this cruelty by choosing vegan options. Chickens deserve to live humanely. It is no more acceptable to confine 60 hens for their entire lives in a cage that you report is “about the size of a Ford F-150 pickup truck’s flatbed” than it would be to treat 60 cats similarly.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ New Way to Help Chickens Cross to Other Side ” (front page, Oct. 22): PETA is proud to see that its hard work behind the scenes with Bell & Evans and other companies to encourage implementation of this new, less cruel form of slaughter is finally coming to fruition. McDonald’s, are you listening? 25, 2010

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 30, 2007

As a longtime vegan with three vegan-from-birth children, I would like to suggest that since vegetarians are generally healthier than meat eaters, there is no excuse for compassionate people to eat animals. There is no moral difference between eating a dog or a pig, a cat or a chicken. Borders Jr. Louisville, Ky.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism. And how much land would be required to contain ranches like the one owned by Ms. Would no forests need to be cut down to create the pastures?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan. Elaine Sloan New York, Jan. Having a roast or baked chicken used to be for special occasions. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. Brian O’Reilly Montclair, N.J., We reap what we sow. Michelle Gordon Gulfport, Miss.,

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

In " Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes " in the Environment section of today's New York Times, Leslie Kaufman reports that American households have become a battleground for beliefs about the environment. Does Planet Earth have the time for everyone to decide they're "ready" to give it a break?

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