Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. It's also a factory farm. The important word in the phrase "family farm" is the same word that is important in "factory farm."

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Gestation Crates Farming Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

It just so happens that after I read Bea's comment from yesterday about reaching kids with our message I saw a New York Times article from today called " Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing ," by Ann Farmer. The kids made tortillas from scratch and then went to a factory to see how professionals do it.

Cooking 100

Cooking Chickens Factory Monkeys 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It's a choice.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

The New York Times ' Nicholas D. What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. Kristof frustrates me. His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. I'm on my way.

Animal Sanctuary 100

Animal Sanctuary Factory Farm Factory Farming Sanctuary 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40