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. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.
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." And they certainly wouldn't hurt anybody; that's what those big factory farms do that aren't owned by families. You see midwestern folk in overalls with tired faces.
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Animal Person
JUNE 13, 2009
You get the idea at YouTube but the experience is vastly different on a great television. On the animal front, there is definitely a message that factory farming is unsustainable, and that subsistence farming is and was preferable; there is a vague if-we-did-it-differently-it-might-be-sustainable message. But that's me.
Animal Person
OCTOBER 26, 2009
The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Ever, in fact. This is very silly.
Critter News
APRIL 26, 2009
That's why people say that they have no problem eating them, harvesting them, experimenting on them, etc. Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. Tags: activism animal rights political movement. Animals can't do that. Who is our leader?
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 3, 2010
With these lions there were clear welfare and public safety issues, When dealing with lions there are not only welfare and public safety issues, we are therefore delighted to be working with PAWS who have enormous experience with big cats and a reputation for setting the highest standards in animal care.”.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
The discussion about the environment usually originates in the massive problems created by the factory farming of sentient nonhumans. The arguments against factory farming, which most recently were articulated by Jonathan Safran Foer (who has caused quite a stir in the mainstream), are legion.
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