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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. Mentally, they go insane from boredom and stress, just as our dogs or cats would if they were kept in tiny crates or carriers for their entire lives.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. Would anyone in this day and age dare to say that we cannot presume to know a dog’s mind, that a dog cannot tell us if it is happy or sad, frustrated, lonely or bored?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Consumers can help the beef industry save itself by both buying less and choosing grass-fed. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. It is essential for the industry’s survival. Human beings, like dogs, are omnivores.

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Animal Ethics

It, too, traced, with a great deal of investigative reporting, the journey fat trimmings take through the meatpacking industry. The United States Department of Agriculture has been broken for a long time, and it is clear that it cannot protect the American public from illness and death from contaminated meat products.

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

Animal Person

You may have seen "Dog," posted by Stephanie. When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." Emilio Flores for the New York Times.) We here in America claim we love dogs. If not, here it is.

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Animal Ethics

At the same time connections between the food industry and government agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have become so incestuous that we should expect little from them. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,

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Animal Rights Zone Launches Today

Animal Person

New York Times. New York City. Also, that's how you get the cat-and-dog-and-horse (and maybe dolphin) people to cross over into a world where cuteness isn't the primary concern. Responsible Policies. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. More >> Places. Kazakhstan.