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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Toney Union, N.J., Kellman San Antonio, Oct.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. 22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. Lawrence S. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

Animal Person

When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." See the entire slide show, Happy Cows: Behind the Myth, here.). Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide." If not, here it is.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Here’s the petition. She drew this petition up to ask the USFWS to reconsider the clause in its management plan that calls for hunting Eastern sandhill cranes. Thanks for visiting!

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

Finally, Scott writes that "we have the responsibility to set aside emotion as much as possible and make rational, science-based decisions on policy in an effort to balance the concerns of all involved.". All we do as vegans is take a reality--the reality of the sentience of cats, dogs, horses, chickens, sheep, cows, etc.

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