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Animal Person
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." Or pig, or duck, or fish.
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. However I cannot see a rational argument for saying eating dogs or cats is barbaric while eating pork or beef is fine.
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Animal Person
JANUARY 27, 2010
It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. Sometimes an article has a couple of the above, as in the case of " Chinese Legal Experts Call for a Ban on Eating Cats and Dogs." Let's deconstruct: Legal experts in China are proposing a ban on the eating of dogs and cats.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2015
People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He Mourning Doves fed cheerios, raptors fed hot dogs, infant squirrels fed watered down peanut butter because squirrels eat peanuts at the feeder, right?” Probably because people see so many Red-tails taking down pigs.”. “At
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
To the Editor: Re “ Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind ” (Op-Ed, Feb. 20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” People who study pigs say they are as intelligent as a 3-year-old child, smarter even than the dogs we share our homes with.
Critter News
MAY 28, 2009
Some of us forget that dogs are mere animals, and that animal mistreatment is as American as Apple iPods. In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? Peters Paso Robles, Calif., I think most would, enthusiastically. Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,
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