Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.' FRIEDRICH Washington, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. It’s time to send the message that cost is not the only important consideration. BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va., 21, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst’s observations about happy pigs and unhappy farmers aren’t about the well-being of either.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

It accepts completely the hype concerning a California ballot initiative that among other things bans gestation stalls for pregnant sows. And you do not acknowledge the individual care that pigs get in such systems and the protection from predators, diseases and the aggression that pigs often exhibit toward each other in group housing.

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