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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”

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Are You Wearing Man's Best Friend? That Trim on the Hood of Your Jacket Might Be Dog Fur!

Animal Ethics

According to the HSUS press release, HSUS revealed earlier this week that Burlington Coat Factory was falsely advertising real fur garments as faux fur in newspaper circulars, on its web site, and in store displays at its 350 locations nationwide. One of the questions on the survey is: "Is it morally permissible to kill animals for fur coats?"

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