Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). We don't advocate "happy meat" but veganism. We have asked openly for donations already but few people are willing to help.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters Language Thanksgiving veganism. It's our tradition.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. They are created to be slaughtered. The choice isn't the wild or the farm. Yes, that's true.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

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. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I say "if you know someone" because this isn't a book I'd recommend to vegans for their vegan education efforts. The vegans I know would probably find it a bit maddening, and here's why: We aren't sure whether Foer is a vegan. Not great, but good. He never says he is. But why does he say "vegetarian?"

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land.

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