Animal Ethics

JUNE 18, 2014

Our elected officials must recognize that beating elephants with bullhooks—heavy batons with a sharp metal hook on the end that can tear elephants’ skin—and whipping tigers until they cringe and cower, are ethically indefensible.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ When Fashion Meets Fishing, the Feathers Fly ” (front page, June 29), about a new trend of inserting fly fishing feathers in hair: If you wouldn’t walk around with a cat’s paw or a dog’s tail dangling from your hair, please don’t fall for the rooster feather fad either.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Specifically, the increasing meat-consumption trend could be reversed if consumers paid the true price for meat. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec. Anna Lappé Brooklyn, Dec. This is stupid.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

Reversing the agricultural trends of the last half century is a policy area where almost everyone’s interests are aligned. Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factory farming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer. Regina Weiss Brooklyn, July 12, 2010

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. To the Editor: Re “ A Farm Boy Reflects ” (column, July 31): Hats off to Nicholas D.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2006

To the Editor: I wish that I could better understand the recent trend of anthropomorphizing dogs. Is this a reflection of our society? Our dogs have a better standard of living than millions of people in other parts of the world.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

It would love to read more about the ethical considerations that go into using playback for research purposes and how federal rules against playback affect research design. For example, the authors explain ‘playback,’ a technique utilized in many of the studies they summarize and apparently in their own studies.

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