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JUNE 11, 2013

they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. This has resulted in their populations returning to natural levels and their fear of humans being curtailed. Gelada communications include intense staring with raised eyebrows. As mentioned earlier, Geladas spend their nights on inaccessible cliffs, where they sleep on ledges.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. That is never humane.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

And I suspect that people become vegetarians for precisely that reason: that by doing so they overcome the residue of guilt that attaches to every form of hubris, and in particular to the hubris of human freedom. Where there are conscientious carnivores, however, there is a motive to raise animals kindly.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. For this to happen, subsidies that keep animal feed artificially low, and encourage producers to raise as many animals as possible, should end. Human beings, like dogs, are omnivores.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies. More and more people do not.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

Raising livestock is the best use of most pasture land, not growing crops. Animals turn grass, a k a sunlight, into high-quality proteins, minerals and fats that are an ideal food for humans. Buy locally raised pastured meats from farmers in your area. Michelle Gordon Gulfport, Miss.,

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