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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care. Eating dead animals and animal products is bad for people, bad for animals and bad for the planet.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

The breast milk of vegan mothers is fully nutritious for infants, and contains the full compliment of energy, protein, and vitamins, needed for the rapid growth of life's first half year. Michael Klaper, Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet , p. Neal Barnard, Food for Life: How the New Four Food Groups Can Save Your Life , p.

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