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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Gary Steiner perfectly articulates my feelings, and particularly my frustration, as so many around me obsess about the preparation of their turkeys. Professor Steiner is entitled to his beliefs and his tofurkey; most of the rest of us will enjoy our turkey without guilt (but with vegetable stuffing). Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov.