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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

When I started blogging, I thought that if more people sought out free-range, grass-fed "beef," more animals would be saved/fewer would be created. I think this is why I understand the thinking of people who don't want us to use animals but who promote changing the way we use them to decrease their numbers or their suffering.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,