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Animal Ethics

Edward Machtinger San Francisco, April 26, 2009 The writer is an associate professor of medicine and director of the Women’s H.I.V. Program, University of California, San Francisco. The meat industry is environmentally devastating, incredibly inhumane and now potentially the end to us all.

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Animal Ethics

Machtinger San Francisco, Nov. In this country, this lesson is usually less direct: that it is somehow logical to teach kids to love and respect animals while feeding them animals that have been raised and slaughtered in genuinely terrible conditions. 19, 2007 Note from KBJ: I would replace "living" with "sentient."

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here? ” (news article, Dec. 27): It’s little wonder that Tatiana, the tiger that escaped from the San Francisco Zoo, longed for her freedom.