Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse? Animals suffer when killed. No pearly phrases can make that any better. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Doesn’t he realize that he does not have to engage in this voluntary activity, which causes moral conflict for himself and suffering for the animals? Janet Treadaway New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: I, too, am a farm boy.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy. A diet that may be adequate for an adult is not always good for a baby or a child.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 5, 2007

To the Editor: “ A Factory Farm Near You ” (editorial, July 31) does not mention any issue of the morality of factory farming—treating living beings as factory products. Cruelty to animals on such a scale should be the centerpiece of any discussion on raising animals for food.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 30, 2007

There is no moral difference between eating a dog or a pig, a cat or a chicken. For the same reason that most of us would not eat our pets, we should also not eat chickens, pigs or other animals.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.).

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 21, 2007

They do so because it’s the moral and ethical thing to do, and it’s in their best economic interest. Catherine di Lorenzo Woodbine, Ga., March 14, 2007 To the Editor: Contrary to the assertions in Nicolette Hahn Niman’s attack on modern pork production, America’s 67,000 pork producers treat their animals humanely.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.).

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Kristof of the New York Times. Eating meat and using mousetraps are as different (morally speaking) as night and day. This shows that Kristof has not given much serious thought to the topic of the moral status of animals. My friend Mylan linked to an op-ed column by Nicholas D. Let me make a few comments.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? Systematic cullings in the absence of feasible alternatives, therefore, may be morally permissible. I believe it does help.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Here is a New York Times blog post about wolf hunting. Peter Singer more broadly examines the moral standing of animals here.) This passage puzzles me: Unsurprisingly, I believe it is wrong to inflict pain and death unnecessarily on a creature capable of suffering.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

In " Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes " in the Environment section of today's New York Times, Leslie Kaufman reports that American households have become a battleground for beliefs about the environment.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2008

This New York Times column has to rank as the worst thing I've read. The author fails to distinguish legal rights from moral rights, fails to distinguish the question whether animals do have legal rights from the question whether they should have legal rights, fails to analyze the concept of a right (i.e.,

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 4, 2006

Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about organic fish. Note that this debate is independent of the debate about the moral permissibility of eating fish. If organically raised fish suffer less than nonorganically raised fish, it is an accident, morally speaking.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 125) This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals. Animals cannot give consent.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. Perhaps she would argue that there is no double standard, i.e., that there is a morally relevant difference between human animals and nonhuman animals that justifies the difference in treatment. and their bodies dismembered and processed. I can't imagine what it is.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

I have focused exclusively on moral theory. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], xvii-xviii) I have not reviewed these horrors here, because so many powerful accounts exist. Nevertheless, I believe that a good theoretical argument is worth the effort.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 45 [endnote omitted]) An exception for vegetables is thus consistent with the categorical imperative; an exception for humans with respect to eating animals is not.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 21, 2007

The book that started everything was Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men [(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978); I finished reading this book on 28 December 1980]. Eventually these interests brought me to Joel Feinberg [1926-2004] and Tom Regan, and that opened up my philosophical world.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

97/1 The welfare of the child religious, moral, and social, as well as physical and pecuniaryis the paramount consideration for the court. b. A lot of Puerto Ricans coming up to New York to get a free handout. b. Synne 3928 yf ou euer haddyst sorow oer kare Of y neghëburs welfare. c1369 CHAUCER Dethe Blaunche (Fairf.)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Having come from nearly godwitless Western New York, I have a special appreciation for every single Marbled Godwit standing out there on a mudflat. Counts of anywhere from twenty to eighty Marbled Godwits are standard when birding Chomes or Punta Morales; two of the main shorebird hotspots in Costa Rica. Marbled Godwit.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In this morning's New York Times editorial " There Is No 'Humane' Execution ," we have an imperfect yet nevertheless baby step toward acknowledgment of the HumaneMyth. We went from an abolitionist angle--that executing people is morally wrong--to the death penalty needs to be repealed to eliminate problems during the execution.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens. All of the male hatchlings are either smothered or ground up alive. Jean Bettanny Port Townsend, Wash.,

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

82-29 Abingdon Rd, New York US-NY (40.7088,-73.8342). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas.

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MARCH 14, 2011

You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. .&# And then you seem to have no tolerance of a voice that that has a different viewpoint. Wicked, right?

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APRIL 1, 2017

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Purple Sandpiper – Calidris maritima. Point Lookout. 18 Feb 2017.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. New Jersey. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. thesis – as she did – is a bit much though. Examples: California. Connecticut. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota.

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MAY 6, 2017

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Purple Sandpiper – Calidris maritima. Point Lookout. 18 Feb 2017.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. US-NY-New York-21400-21598 Rockaway Point Blvd – 40.5597x-73.9246. Fort Tilden–Fishermans Parking Lot. 01 Jan 2017. Airport Mangroves.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Pectoral Sandpiper – Calidris melanotos. 12 Aug 2017.

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MARCH 6, 2017

But this post isn’t about water slides, $15 rum drinks, the horrors of tourist traps, or the morality of pocketing bread from the breakfast buffet for later. Perhaps this Osprey will be fishing in New York in a month or so. No, this post is about birding, birding the Lakeview Drive Ponds in particular.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 25, 2006

On this Christmas holiday, Christians would do well to reflect on what their faith teaches about the moral status of animals. Here is a New York Times story about St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. Here is a website that contains information about St Francis.

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MARCH 4, 2017

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. US-NY-New York-21400-21598 Rockaway Point Blvd – 40.5597x-73.9246. Purple Sandpiper – Calidris maritima. Point Lookout. 18 Feb 2017.

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JUNE 4, 2016

US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Reserva Ribera Norte. 10 May 2016. Diademed Tanager – Stephanophorus diadematus. Reserva Ribera Norte. 10 May 2016.

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