Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. Many animal supporters get caught up in fighting the food industry, but animal testing is as ugly and fundamental an issue. This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. This is an important issue. We as a movement cannot compartamentalize.

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Animal Person

MAY 25, 2010

Particularly when vegans and animal rights advocates are a tiny percentage of the population, some find it necessary and desirable to go to a place where they are among friends (for the most part). Also, as the mutual fund industry disclaimer says, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." And that's fine. But say that.

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Animal Person

JULY 14, 2009

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry. Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Los Angeles, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. And there are ethical reasons for becoming vegetarian. Ethical synergy at work.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. So, by purchasing dairy products one is indirectly supporting the inherently cruel veal industry.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

Every day, some people make the switch to entirely plant-based vegan diets. Some people make the switch for ethical reasons, others for health reasons, others out of concern for the environment, and some for a combination of all these reasons. (As First of all, people can change. In part, because of media obfuscation.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

1, 2009 To the Editor: As an ethics instructor who aims to inspire my students to think about the connections between their values and daily practices, I found Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article disappointing. Borrowing a move from the tobacco industry, Ms. Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

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. But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. Elaine Sloan New York, Jan.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

But yet every single day in Ireland there are greyhounds all over the country been dumped into rivers with rocks tied to their little feet and their ears cut off so that they are non identifiable, this is the Irish greyhound racing industry at it's best when they no longer want the ones who are 'useless' or 'unwanted'.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

Therefore, one of the many things we need, aside from the obvious of more vegan parents, is a line of nonspeciesist books for each age/stage. We can either bombard the publishing industry with proposals for books for kids, or we can create a publishing company ourselves for this specific purpose. I'm a terrible fiction writer.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Just ask former cattle rancher Howard Lyman , who is now a vegan and animal rights activist. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. There are children.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Going vegan is the best way to combat this environmental nightmare, improve your health and stand up against the animal cruelty so prevalent in factory farms today. This is an issue on which we don’t need to wait for government or industry to act first. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., We can start at our next meal.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 7, 2011

But what I do is "imposing" or "forcing" veganism and atheism on my child. When my husband and I first adopted Baby Sky, several friends and relatives asked, "are you going to make her be a vegan? They were forcing us to be consumers of animal exploitation industries. Animal skin to wear on our feet.

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