Critter News

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

It's an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as intelligent creatures that could be someone's pet. Tags: meat pigs pork farm animal welfare. Now, it may see like it would add to more depression, but it actually makes me feel a little better.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

as I was running this morning, I couldn't help wonder what the difference is between his book and The Compassionate Carnivore and the myriad others written by people who despise factory farming, yet claim to love animals (and of course love their "meat," and find a way to get it while not feeling bad about it). Tags: Books Ethics.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Many people support this, particularly affluent types, who have become dog and cat people and now own them as "pets." But my initial reaction is that this is like Americans giving up "red meat." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink. Where do people get that idea? Let's just say the ban was meaningful.

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