Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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Critter News

APRIL 6, 2009

Factory farming does not only happen on land. Overfishing, poor resource management, the view of life as a product for sale, and pure greed is crashing fisheries and destroying beautiful ecosystems. While the vast majority of this company's products were shrimp, the majority of its revenue was earned from crab sales.

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

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. Plus though the film isn't long (under two hours), it covers an enormous amount of ground (!), But that's me.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure."

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. But how much can we accomplish when our resources are so divided? (I believe they can speak, but in their own language that we can understand if we only listen.) There is a group for every cause. Best Friends?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 26, 2007

Indeed, doesn't it entrench the idea that they are resources for human use? Someone might argue that there is no incompatibility between (1) working to decrease animal suffering and (2) working toward the abolition of factory farming. But doesn't decreasing animal suffering make abolition less likely?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. I have visited many of the grotesque factory farms that now corrupt our rural landscapes.

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