Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Peter Singer Geoff Russell Barry Brook New York, Nov. 3, 2009 Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and the author of “ The Ethics of What We Eat.” Hence the call to cut down or eliminate meat-eating, especially beef, should be supported by everyone concerned about the future of our planet.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2012

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals applauds the efforts of those district attorneys and animal control officers who are enforcing the law against those few chefs who continue to flout it.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

NEWKIRK President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., It’s a safe bet that any glass of milk is from a grieving mother, named or unnamed, that will end up dying at the slaughterhouse.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

CLAUDIA SILBERLICHT New York, July 13, 2011 We are headed in the right direction, but need to fight to push the changes through. It could take up to 18 years for them to be phased in, if the law should pass. A factory-farmed egg-producing hen’s lifespan is less than two years.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan. David Peters New York, Nov.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The nightjar was singing loudly, almost incessantly, and from the snippets of conversation I could hear it was obvious that the new birders had no clue they were listening to it (New York birder eventually pointed this out to them). Birding Bird Call Playback birder''s etiquette ethics I Am Birder'

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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. Niman’s argument amounts to lowering an ethical standard to fit the demands of our meat-centric culture and Western privilege.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

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. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. Moreover, pigs are not the only ones that would be happier with welfare improvements: according to a nationwide poll commissioned by the ASPCA, a majority of Americans want farm animals to be treated in a way that inflicts the least amount of pain and suffering possible. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 30, 2010

March 18, 2010 The writer is director of the Emergency Response Team, cruelty investigations department, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Treating cruelty to animals with the seriousness it deserves doesn’t only protect animals, it also makes the entire community safer. Martin Mersereau Norfolk, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

April 9, 2009 To the Editor: In making the personal decision of where to place ourselves in our ethical relationship with animals, it is important to evaluate the reality of our words. Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2014

To the Editor: Once again people associated with the animal rights group PETA ( letter , June 19) have tried to disparage the commitment circuses have for animal care and conservation. Despite the claims made in the letter, circuses like Ringling Bros.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

If the Nazi marchers and racist hate mongers “augmented” their activities with videos of graphic violence against Jews and blacks, would The New York Times rush to their defense on constitutional grounds? Mandelker New York, Oct. In the case of dogfighting and “crush videos,” cruelty is not just promoted, but staged.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 26, 2009

Bonnie Lane Webber New York, Jan. It’s easy to cut meat consumption if you start with one day a week of no meat. People will be pleasantly surprised at how delicious vegetarian food can taste.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 29, 2009

To the Editor: Re “Officials Point to Swine Flu in New York” (front page, April 26): Dare we ask why this happening [sic]? While its exact origin is still unclear, this pathogen, and many others (like avian influenza), originated from animals being raised or eaten for food.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

April 23, 2008 To the Editor: You suggest that the raising of animals for food should be done “in ways that are both ethical and environmentally sound.” Vadim Liberman New York, April 23, 2008 We call ourselves vegetarians. Patti Breitman Fairfax, Calif., This is asking for the impossible.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Now it is a book from a swank New York publishing house, with a fantastic jacket design and a significant marketing push (I ran across a quote from it in Outside magazine yesterday, and of course it is being reviewed on the premeire birding blog on the entire Internet.)

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

New York Times. New York City. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog).

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 13, 2008

To the Editor: Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld writes about the horrors of a kosher slaughterhouse where “news reports and government documents have described abusive practices.” Gretchen Berger New York, Aug. But he says almost nothing about reports of how badly the animals were treated there. Religious slaughter is still slaughter.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2013

In Response to Nicholas D. Kristof''s column "Can We See Our Hypocrisy to Animals?"NYTimes NYTimes readers urge consistency in our treatment of and concern for animals here.'

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 13, 2009

6): I was disappointed that you dignified the “harvest” (a classic euphemism) with high-tech bows and arrows of tule elk in California on the front page with references to the “sport” and compliance with “an ethical code known as Fair Chase.” To the Editor: Re “ Bow Hunters’ Solitary Quest: Stalking an Elk and a Record ” (front page, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. Note from KBJ: The author of the New York Times story describes human beings as "carnivores." Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec. Anna Lappé Brooklyn, Dec. This is stupid.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2008

Kathy Guillermo Director Laboratory Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., And when one considers that millions of dogs and cats are killed each year in shelters because there are no homes for them, cloning becomes unethical as well. May 21, 2008

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Maybe someday our legislators in New York will have the courage to follow in the footsteps of the states Mr. Kristof mentions. Janet Treadaway New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: I, too, am a farm boy.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ Drummer Denies He Intentionally Spooked Horse That Died ” (news article, Sept. The recent report by the New York City comptroller points out the absolute failure of city agencies to protect these indentured slaves. Zelda Penzel New York, Sept. Shame on Mayor Michael R.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 28, 2008

Gil Kulick New York, Jan. Since the introduction of longline fishing in the 1960’s, the Atlantic bluefin population has fallen by 97 percent, and the international bodies responsible for protecting this fishery have, because of its huge profitability, failed to impose catch limits that ensure its survival.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). And that's the bad news.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

To the Editor: In “ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ” (Op-Ed, Dec. 26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer.

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Animal Person

APRIL 4, 2009

In " Prominent Horseman Faces Questions About Neglect ," Joe Drape of the New York Times reports: Four undernourished and neglected former racehorses belonging to Ernie Paragallo, a prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner, were rescued from a New York kill pen last month, one step from being slaughtered.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

4, 2009 To the Editor: I have been a strict vegetarian most of my life, and, as such, I have never lacked reasons—ethical, economic and health-related—to continue this lifestyle. Serge Scherbatskoy Arcata, Calif.,

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Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Do you agree with the New York Times ' William C. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Rhoden in " The Case for a Second Chance for Michael Vick? " And I'm not just referring to Vick here. Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

28, 2007 The writer, on the staff of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, writes for its Animals in Entertainment Campaign. How many people and animals must pay with their lives before we acknowledge that big cats don’t belong in captivity? Jennifer O’Connor Norfolk, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 25, 2007

New York, July 23, 2007 We would welcome greater public support for our programs, which set a shining example for animal welfare across the nation. Edwin Sayres President and Chief Executive A.S.P.C.A.

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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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