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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

There are environmental reasons to go vegetarian: The production of animal-derived foods is implicated in every major environmental problem. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale." One cannot produce eggs or dairy products on a large scale without the wholesale exploitation of animals.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms. One outspoken proponent of factory farming cited in the HPMAJ column is "Trent Loos, a rancher, journalist and vocal livestock supporter."

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