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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization's own report entitled Livestock's Long Shadow : "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

If a person cares about what "livestock" experience on their way to becoming "meat," there is one easy, inexpensive action that person can take to make certain s/he is not a party to the various kinds and levels of suffering and injustice the animals experience. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. The next logical step for those who eat in restaurants is to demand more vegetarian-vegan options on their menus. This issue is an important one and needs to be talked about.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan. Raising livestock is the best use of most pasture land, not growing crops. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. Elaine Sloan New York, Jan. We have become the pigs, and we are paying the price with our health. We reap what we sow.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

David Scott (D-Ga), who is the chairman of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture draws a line in the sand regarding the animals we use and how we use them. All we do as vegans is take a reality--the reality of the sentience of cats, dogs, horses, chickens, sheep, cows, etc.

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