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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. How far do we go in protecting them? Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. Indeed, many paleoanthropologists maintain that the evolution of the large, energy-hungry human brains depended on a transition of our ancestors’ diets to include meat.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Mr. Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. This issue is an important one and needs to be talked about. If we are to live in a more peaceful world, we must abandon the cruelty on our plates. That is never humane.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. And as the slaughtering of animals is not high tech, certainly no trade secrets would be at risk with the imposition of cameras. And as the slaughtering of animals is not high tech, certainly no trade secrets would be at risk with the imposition of cameras.

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Adopt A Turkey!

4 The Love Of Animals

Says DeGeneres: “Did you know that every year between 250 and 300 million turkeys are bred for slaughter in the United States? Sadly, the meat industry subjects turkeys to intolerable cruelty and treats them like inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities. More than 46 million for Thanksgiving alone.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.