Animal Ethics

JANUARY 10, 2010

31): Would the average American have believed that hamburgers were treated with ammonia to remove salmonella and E. 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. Chang Stanford, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies. Scott Plous Middletown, Conn.,

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. But for more than 20 years, consumer groups led by Public Citizen have worked to scare the public about food irradiation and threatened to boycott companies that market irradiated products. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms. Need we feel guilty about being carnivorous? The best advice Ms. Niman’s ranch and others using comparable methods?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India. If beef cattle and other meat-producing animals were fed on waste products instead of on grain, there would be no reason not to eat meat in order to feed the hungry people of the world.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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