Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? And for what?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. If we are not justified in eating mackerel ourselves, are we not also morally obligated to stop the slaughter brought on by the tuna? Suffering and injustice are inherent in life, and time is short.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Toney Union, N.J., Kellman San Antonio, Oct.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." Desperate to drive up prices by stemming the gusher of unwanted milk, a dairy industry group, the National Milk Producers Federation, has been paying farmers to send herds to slaughter. If not, here it is.

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