Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2008

Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering. Many, if not most, of the meat eaters I know are deeply concerned about the fact that the animals they eat are raised in factory farm conditions. Life without meat seems unbearable to them. They realize that factory farming is inhumane.

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MARCH 26, 2009

were vegetarians for years before switching back to meat-eating. I recently found out that a male coworker was also a vegetarian for eight years before reverting back to meat. Not counting myself, I only know one other vegetarian/vegan. I haven't asked these people why they went back to eating meat.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Throughout the entire show, the judges and contestants always refer to their meats as the "protein." Vegetarians and vegans know that you get protein from vegetables. Protein is not dependent on meat at all. I've seen two chefs wear stupid meat-inspired shirts. Tags: exotic meats meat cooking.

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APRIL 11, 2009

As an aside, people who love to eat meat should also watch educational videos like these. If one wants to eat meat, fine, but understand how you are spending your money. Conditions for farm animals will not change until meat-eaters start demanding changes themselves. Tags: UK meat pigs. Don't live in a cloud.wake up!

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Throughout the book, Keith mocks vegetarians and vegans.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure."

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. But I’m merely making his point.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2008

Oprah Winfrey goes vegan for 21 days. On Day 1 of her 21-day experiment with veganism, Oprah aptly asked: "How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?" Try a cruelty-free vegan diet for 21 days and see how you feel.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

In today's Dot Earth post " Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too? ," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. Every day, some people switch from meat-based diets to vegetarian diets.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 4, 2012

Not all bodybuilders are meat-eaters. See here.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Tags: economics vegan meat vegetarian.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

Nothing like this has ever done here and we are showing the first images of Spanish farms -we have previously done an investigation on Spanish slaughterhouses www.mataderos.info ), so we want to get media & society attention about it and give them a vegan message. We don't advocate "happy meat" but veganism.

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APRIL 25, 2009

He is known to follow a vegan diet, eating no meat or food containing animal products. Daniel Andreas San Diego, wanted for alleged involvement in 2 bombings in San Francisco has been listed by the FBI as one of their Most Wanted Terrorists. San Diego has ties to animal rights extremist groups.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

And it usually involves exchanges with non-vegans. But fighting for the term animal rights or about the term abolition ends up, in the real world, being about fighting with other vegans (and I don't know if fighting is the proper term--it very likely isn't--but I'm out of time to get into that).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Also, an update on Emily's 50% vegan (Ami) diet. Next, to today's New York Times and Gary Steiner 's fantastic Op-ed called " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,"which begins with: "LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised." (Try And the "strict ethical vegan" to come.)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products?

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MAY 9, 2009

One guy runs Vegan Outreach and the other is a VP at PETA (they have those?). They even go so far as to insist that it can be a good thing for vegetarians to date meat-eaters! It's titled "The Animal Activists' Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World" by Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich.

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

As I've written previously, I never pushed him to go vegan, and now that he is I don't push him to do any vegan education. But with so many other topics to cover, such as water and oil, that message that happy meat is acceptable doesn't even get any airtime. But that's me.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

8) The argument for the immorality of eating meat continues with two additional, undeniable premises: (3) The animals that become that meat are killed. Those who have doubts as to the accuracy of these descriptions can view the graphic but accurate documentary "Meet Your Meat" here or here. (Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2007

People who have eaten meat and dairy products their entire lives, often simply can't imagine what vegans eat. Vegan chefs Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero are doing their part to put an end to the misconception that vegan cuisine is boring and bland. Still skeptical about how tasty vegan fare can be?

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

And the wife says that one thing the family does is eat less meat and eggs (and they raise the animals on their land), but even that is glossed over. And in the pre and post show (that I saw), even in the interviews with the celebrities who are known vegetarians (I know, I know, they're not vegans.),

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APRIL 13, 2009

The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. While a nationwide vegan or vegetarian lifestyle change is highly unlikely, the abuse can be maintained through increased government regulation. How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 1, 2010

Why not make this the year that you get serious and take a meaningful step toward improving your health and reducing your waistline by experimenting with a vegan diet for 21 days. It has never been easier to try out a vegan diet. Today marks Day 1 of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's 21-Day Vegan Kickstart.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

I long for the realistic hope that one second will pass without torture and slaughter and enslavement, and I know perfectly well that that second, despite Earth Days and Earth Hours and Meat-Free Days, isn't going to happen. I don't need to "remind myself" of how bad it is to bolster my commitment to veganism. What to do.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are self-interested, health-based reasons to go vegetarian: The major killers of Americans--heart disease, cancer, and stroke--are all strongly positively correlated with meat consumption. And, as noted above, the original divinely-prescribed diet was a vegan diet.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild. To that extent, he will be not only a vegetarian, but also a vegan, one who abstains not only from meat but also from animal products.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

For example, we will not claim that Martin is opposed to moral vegetarianism because he likes to eat meat without a guilty conscience. Indeed, two well-known moral and social philosophers, Robert Nozick and Peter Singer, have recently advocated not eating meat on moral grounds. KBJ: There are different reasons to abstain from meat.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. 27): Mark Bittman answered my prayers by writing an article exposing how the meat industry contributes to global warming, world hunger and other issues plaguing our world. But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 30, 2007

As a longtime vegan with three vegan-from-birth children, I would like to suggest that since vegetarians are generally healthier than meat eaters, there is no excuse for compassionate people to eat animals. To the Editor: Re “ Two Pigs ” (The Rural Life, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. To the Editor: The claims Nicolette Hahn Niman makes for how greenhouse gases might be reduced while still eating meat may very well be true, and I do not have the expertise to challenge them. The best advice Ms.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 18, 2008

Cholesterol is found only in foods derived from animals, like meat, cheese and eggs. All food that comes from plants is cholesterol-free, so a vegetarian or vegan diet does wonders for lowering cholesterol levels. I suppose you can say that I started to control my cholesterol level 17 years ago when I was a young woman.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

This brings up the question of how one can distinguish between what is forbidden by lactovo moral vegetarianism and vegan moral vegetarianism. Who Should Not Eat Meat, or What Does a Vegetarian Feed His Dog? Does this mean that a vegetarian would have to feed his dog some meat substitute? Human beings can do without meat.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ Death by Veganism ,” by Nina Planck (Op-Ed, May 21): I am a nutritionist who testified as an expert witness for the prosecution in the criminal trial of the parents of Crown Shakur. As the lead prosecutor in this case told the jury, this poor infant was not killed by a vegan diet. Contrary to Ms.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

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. The next logical step for those who eat in restaurants is to demand more vegetarian-vegan options on their menus. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif.,

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