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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason. There is no ethical justification for treating an animal inhumanely for no good reason.

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