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Gene Bauer from Farm Sanctuary appears in this article. I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. Pretty intense, but I hope people read it. There is a disturbing hedonism to eating. We just don't think about where that flesh came from.and most of us don't care.
The article is so short, I'm just posting the whole thing. Californian farmers and ranchers would be prohibited from routinely dosing healthy farmanimals with antibiotics under a bill getting its first level of approval on 21 April in the state Senate, reports Central Valley Business Times.
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit.
Go here for the full article. Australian scientists have set themselves the challenge of understanding the minds of animals and what they are feeling. The research is being funded by Meat and Livestock Australia. The purpose is to make them happier as livestock. The excerpt below is from the Sydney Morning Herald.
This article reaffirms my belief that it's more humane to slaughter horses in the US than to ship them for slaughter to Canada or Mexico. I don't like it either way, but one is better than the other for sure.
Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. Elaine Livesey-Fassel Los Angeles
Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. To the Editor: The claims Nicolette Hahn Niman makes for how greenhouse gases might be reduced while still eating meat may very well be true, and I do not have the expertise to challenge them. The best advice Ms.
Every time I get depressed about animal issues (every other day it seems like), I see an article like this. It's an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as intelligent creatures that could be someone's pet. And, of course, this view of farmanimals is the norm.
Kristof (column, April 9): Thank you for this inspiring and enlightening article. Animals raised for food suffer miserably. These farmers work long hours moving animals from pasture to pasture and often struggle with a paucity of meat-processing infrastructure suitable to the needs of small-scale producers.
In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. Farmanimals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for.
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