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On Mixing Bowl and Vegan Education

Animal Person

Though there are plenty of sites by and for vegans, I like this idea because it provides a built-in opportunity to convert people to veganism because you are side-by-side with them, so to speak, on the same site. Vegans seek out vegan sites, but a nonvegan looking for a chocolate cake recipe probably won't seek out a vegan site.

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On "The Age of Stupid"

Animal Person

And the wife says that one thing the family does is eat less meat and eggs (and they raise the animals on their land), but even that is glossed over. And in the pre and post show (that I saw), even in the interviews with the celebrities who are known vegetarians (I know, I know, they're not vegans.),

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On Betrayal and Abolition

Animal Person

While spending hours in the car I've been thinking about various issues related to sentient nonhumans, animal rights and veganism. Imagine if kids in 4-H were taught how to raise dogs for dogfighting (not a perfect analogy, I know). And vegans are accused of imposing our belief systems and brainwashing kids?

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Philip E. Devine on Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild. He will also object to the eating of eggs laid by hens which did not have scope for normal activity. He will not, however, object to the eating of fertile eggs as such.)

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 4 of 13

Animal Ethics

If a genetically engineered animal’s legs periodically fell off, would not its legs be more like a product of an animal (analogous to eggs) than a part of the animal? These people abstain from eggs and dairy products the production of which involves suffering for the animals. Would the blood be analogous to milk or eggs?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Death by Veganism ,” by Nina Planck (Op-Ed, May 21): I am a nutritionist who testified as an expert witness for the prosecution in the criminal trial of the parents of Crown Shakur. As the lead prosecutor in this case told the jury, this poor infant was not killed by a vegan diet. Contrary to Ms.