Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

With regard to cruelty and suffering, it's clear from the film that the human animal has been profoundly negatively affected by climate change, but there is no attention given to nonhuman animals. There was no meaningful discussion about our inefficient use of resources (grain and water) in the feeding of animals to kill to feed people.

Nigeria 100

Nigeria Vegan Neglecting Vegetarian 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Herzog states, “The awkward fact is that most wanton animal cruelty is not perpetrated by inherently bad kids but by normal children who will eventually grow up to be good citizens” (34). . The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do. People believe one thing and do another. All day long.

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. At 14, as I started making my own choices, my eating habits began to change.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It is certain, then, that the practice of flesh-eating involves a vast amount of cruelty, a fact which cannot be lessened or evaded by any quibbling subterfuges. Let it be remembered that it is this latter consistency alone that has any interest for the Vegetarian. I, for example, am a demi-vegetarian. Am I a hypocrite?

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Vegetarian Morals Chickens Lamb 40