Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

His call for the end of factory farms (concentrated animal feeding operations) is courageous. Better food creates better health. And yet our government is perversely encouraging food habits that negatively affect our health and our environment.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factory farming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer.

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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.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences. They will still lack the freedom to engage in natural behaviors like foraging and nesting. Most will never know sunlight, breezes, plants or soil. Like humans, animals have a right to enjoy life. Bill Crain Ellen Crain Poughquag, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: It’s mind-boggling that in spite of overwhelming evidence that the consumption of animal products is directly responsible for a host of human diseases , greenhouse gas production and indescribable animal suffering, the general public continues to satiate its taste buds and support factory farming.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 28, 2009

Though factory-style production worsens it, the root problem is animal use. To the Editor: Thank you for Nicholas D. Kristof’s plea for food-policy reform (“ Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms ,” column, June 21).

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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.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

Elaine Sloan New York, Jan. What is wrong is factory farms. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. 27): Mark Bittman answered my prayers by writing an article exposing how the meat industry contributes to global warming, world hunger and other issues plaguing our world.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 5, 2007

To the Editor: “ A Factory Farm Near You ” (editorial, July 31) does not mention any issue of the morality of factory farming—treating living beings as factory products. Cruelty to animals on such a scale should be the centerpiece of any discussion on raising animals for food.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

It not only brings light to a serious issue, but also begins to make the connection between factory farm practices and consumer choices. Eliminating factory farms and the like will happen only when a majority of consumers recognize their shared responsibility for the food system and start paying farmers a fair price. 18, 2007

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

The Episcopal Church embraces a resolution that specifically addresses puppy mills and factory farms. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic catechism affirm that compassion for animals is a matter of human dignity. The Catholic Church is not alone among major religions on this issue.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

To the Editor: “ A Factory Farm Near You ” (editorial, July 31) is in a time warp. Yes, concentrated animal feeding operations, or “factory farms” as you call them, are a key feature of modern agriculture. And, yes, they are increasing in number as farmers attempt to survive the challenges of modern global agricultural economics.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy. A diet that may be adequate for an adult is not always good for a baby or a child.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 26, 2007

See here for an editorial opinion by The New York Times.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 4, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about traditional farming, which is a darn sight better for animals than factory farming.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

The wrongness of factory farming is overdetermined. By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming? See here for one sufficient ground. Instead, it seeks to reform it.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2007

Most people are shocked and appalled when they first read descriptions of factory farming and learn about the horribly inhumane conditions in which the billions of animals destined for dinner tables are raised, and they are even more appalled when they first see documentary footage of the institutional cruelties inherent in factory farming.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factory farming. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”

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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. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. To the Editor: Re “ Suddenly, the Hunt Is On for Cage-Free Eggs ” (front page, Aug.

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