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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies. More and more people do not.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers. As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

David Scott (D-Ga), who is the chairman of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture draws a line in the sand regarding the animals we use and how we use them. We give them human names and provide them with the same amenities we enjoy as humans. What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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