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To My Friends at Thanksgiving

Animal Person

There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters Language Thanksgiving veganism. It's our tradition.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Compassionate consumers can take a stand against this cruelty by choosing vegan options. Chickens deserve to live humanely. The same goes for pigs and cattle that are exploited and forced to live in substandard conditions. That’s the least farmers can do. ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014'

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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo

Animal Person

When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use? require hundreds of pig, cow and chicken corpses?

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On "The Wild"

Animal Person

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. The choice isn't the wild or the farm. Besides, we have choices.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Two Pigs ” (The Rural Life, Oct. 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. Borders Jr. Louisville, Ky.,

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On Honoring Living "Things"

Animal Person

The same is true for cows, pigs, fishes, turkeys, chickens, buffaloes, sheeps, goats, and many other nonhuman animals whom we call "food." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights Huffington Post language sentience spirituality veganism William Horden. This is indeed a matter of conscience.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan. Having a roast or baked chicken used to be for special occasions. We have become the pigs, and we are paying the price with our health. 27, 2008 The writer is a pig farmer. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan.