Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Humanity Even for Nonhumans ,” by Nicholas D. Animals raised for food suffer miserably. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? That’s right, for me—but it may not be for others.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

Factory 40

Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo 40