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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He would have saved us the necessity of sending an undercover investigator to film the shocking mistreatment of animals. Most Americans, by contrast, join with us in demanding better regulations to safeguard farm animals and more credible inspections of our food. Mr. Nocera is anything but a soothsayer.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. To the Editor: Re “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.