Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. Yesterday I saw what could be the next such attempt in The Atlantic's " Last Clucks: The Death of a Chicken ," by Sara Lipka. the chicken waited with me, its head sticking through a gap in the top of the box. It was funny, maybe even cute."

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Groundhogs 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. And I want Baby Sky to grow up in a home where there is just as much respect for chickens and calves and fishes as there is for greyhounds and cats and people. They would say they love animals. It's our tradition.

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Greyhounds Forced Molting Debeaking Vegan 100

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.

Gazelles 100

Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. I want to talk about why we shouldn't be using animals and that it's infinitely easier to be a vegan than it was 20 years ago. So there are more vegans and fewer animals used by humans, right? I'm trying to gauge people's receptivity to what I'm about to say.

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Animal Advocacy Animal PETA Advocacy 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

And there are religious reasons: According to the Bible , the original divinely-prescribed diet was an entirely plant-based, vegan diet: "And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.

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Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40