Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. To suggest that eating one and not the other represents a conflict of ethics is preposterous. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Kristof (column, April 9): Thank you for this inspiring and enlightening article. Animals raised for food suffer miserably. They deserve recognition and support for offering Americans an alternative to meat raised in confined spaces. To the Editor: The term “free range” sounds prettier than it usually is.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." Potent if symbolic?

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