Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

April 21, 2008 To the Editor: Re “ Million-Dollar Meat ” (editorial, April 23): In vitro meat might not appeal to everyone, but I am guessing that the day PETA awards its prize money will be a happy day for the billions of land animals bound for slaughter. More than nine billion chickens are slaughtered each year in the United States.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat Sheep 40

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This says it all: "[T]he vision of sustainable farms that give animals a good life (a life as good as we give our dogs or cats) and an easy death (as easy as a death we give our suffering and terminally ill companion animals) has moved me" (242).

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Paragraph #5 begins: "Unfortunately when combined with our love for companion animals our lack of knowledge about agriculture leads us to view farm animals the same as we do our pets. He is letting his attachment to eating animals and his attachment to his constituents profiting from their slaughter cloud his decision making.

Emotional 100

Emotional Farm Animal Farmed Animals Agenda 100