Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ New Way to Help Chickens Cross to Other Side ” (front page, Oct. 22): PETA is proud to see that its hard work behind the scenes with Bell & Evans and other companies to encourage implementation of this new, less cruel form of slaughter is finally coming to fruition. McDonald’s, are you listening? 25, 2010

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter. Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. We know that animals suffer as well.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Horses slaughtered in America today go not to feed the poor and the hungry but to satisfy the esoteric palates of wealthy diners in Europe and Japan. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. If we are not justified in eating mackerel ourselves, are we not also morally obligated to stop the slaughter brought on by the tuna? David Peters New York, Nov. He’s right: I don’t care deeply about the suffering of animals I eat, wear or otherwise benefit from.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Regardless of how much meat they eat, they need to switch from eating beef to poultry. 1, 2009 The writer is the editor of Zero Energy Intelligence.com. Kellman San Antonio, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2007

14): To the animals being slaughtered, it does not matter whether their killers are local or whether they will be eaten or displayed on a wall. Their suffering is the same. To the Editor: Re “ Locavore, Get Your Gun ,” by Steven Rinella (Op-Ed, Dec.

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