Animal Person

DECEMBER 27, 2009

I think I would have felt much better if Roth had developed that angle, helping the kids see that pigs and cows aren't that much different from dogs and cats, thereby providing logical building blocks for their thinking to develop. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Gray Matters Language. And I'd prefer a different message.

Factory Farm

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She had one perfect opportunity to present herself as pro-animal rights when Oprah (laughingly) asked: But what if the cows and the chickens are treated really, really nicely. Alicia (laughing): Well, I'd have to see the cows and the chickens. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. would you eat them)? What do you think?

Vegan

Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

require hundreds of pig, cow and chicken corpses? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. Their values are simply a reflection of the dominant culture, which they have either consciously or otherwise chosen not to challenge. What would you do? I'm thinking leave town is the best answer.

Zoos

Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Or in the case of cheese made from the milk of cows. Tags: Ethics Language. But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. And I don't mean to be obnoxious when I say that. Some days you just can't win.

Vegan

Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

But then I remembered that, as a vegan, I purchased and prepared the flesh of cows and chickens for my husband for nearly six years because I knew that if the change didn't come from him he would likely end up resenting me, plus he might even go back to eating and using animals. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

Lifestyle

Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought.

Vegan

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior. I assume Francione does not disagree.

Psychology

Animal Person

JULY 9, 2009

Someone who goes from vegan to vegetarian to eating cows isn't really in a position to judge anyone. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. In short, though I'm just one person, I'm probably the most important person in his life and I support him. And I don't judge him.

Vegan

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Queens Big Day: An Ethical Quandary and More Birds! Moorhen Mania: The splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics What is a babbler? Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or Thanks for visiting! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

2011

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

Here is a New York Times story about women who sacrifice cows on the altar of romance. What man wouldn't love a woman who's that shallow? I like the part about vegetarians being pretentious and neurotic. Could anything be more idiotic?

Cows

Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

The demand for beef is soaring.

Cows

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The land ethic, it should be emphasized, as Leopold has sketched it, provides for the rights of nonhuman natural beings to a share in the life processes of the biotic community. as is the humane ethic. as is the humane ethic. dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and chickens); cell 4 (the southeast quadrant) contains domesticated plants.

Animal Liberation

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

But this distinction lies at the very center of the land ethic. From the perspective of the land ethic a herd of cattle, sheep, or pigs is as much or more a ruinous blight on the landscape as a fleet of four-wheel drive off-road vehicles. But this is not true of cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens.

Animal Liberation

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

last year—28 million pounds—went to pigs, chickens, and cows, which in turn creates a perfect breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant super germs. In 2008, the FDA issued its second limit on the use of cephalosporins in cows, pigs, and chickens, citing the importance of cephalosporin drugs for treating disease in humans.

Meat

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. To suggest that eating one and not the other represents a conflict of ethics is preposterous. 31), while humorous enough, masks more serious issues.

Los Angeles

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The author is pointing out the inconsistency of eating cows and not eating dogs (or rather, caring about dogs but not caring about cows). It's morally permissible to eat cows. There are no morally relevant differences between cows and dogs. The following three propositions are inconsistent: 1.

Indiana

Animal Person

OCTOBER 14, 2011

How are her bones going to grow without cow's milk? I'm constantly asked about the details of Baby Sky's life. Where does she get her protein? You mean she's never eaten bacon? Are you a communist? At Baby Sky's 15 month checkup she landed at about the 75th percentile for height and weight.

Vegan

Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. We call ourselves vegetarians. Patti Breitman Fairfax, Calif.,

New York Times

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

1, 2009 To the Editor: As an ethics instructor who aims to inspire my students to think about the connections between their values and daily practices, I found Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article disappointing. Niman’s argument amounts to lowering an ethical standard to fit the demands of our meat-centric culture and Western privilege.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Here is a review of two new books about the consumption of cow flesh.

Humane

Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

I dispute Dr. Miller’s assertion that rBGH-injected cows can help reduce milk prices. Is this really the conversation we want to be having about nutrition—how to pump cows full of even more chemicals to keep up with our ravenous, fat-laden diets? The only national study on the subject contradicts his claims. Dairy is the No.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 27, 2006

If you care only about cows, you will not eat beef. Abstention from beef is overdetermined. If you care only about the environment, you will not eat beef. If you care only about human beings (present and future), you will not eat beef. If you care only about your health, you will not eat beef. See here.

Cows

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

It will be good for you; it will be good for your children (if any); it will be good for the environment; it will be good for other human beings; and, most importantly, it will be good for the cows. Addendum: This book by Peter Singer and Jim Mason should inspire you as you change your diet.

Cows

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

9, 2008 Note from KBJ: Some reasons for vegetarianism apply to all animals, from cows, pigs, and sheep to turkeys, chickens, and fish. Yet Al Gore does not even mention the need for Americans to reduce meat consumption as we attempt to rescue ourselves from the climate crisis. Michael Radkowsky Washington, Nov.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Such a vegetarian will, however, object to the drinking of milk, since the production of milk requires a painful separation between cow and calf. Nor could he object to the painless killing of wild animals. He will also object to the eating of eggs laid by hens which did not have scope for normal activity. (He

Vegetarian

Animal Ethics

MARCH 15, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ A Case of Abuse, Heightened ,” by Joe Nocera (Talking Business column, March 8): Mr. Nocera tells us that most slaughterhouses don’t mistreat animals or funnel sick downer cows into the food chain. Oh, really?

New York Times

Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

You also suggest that my proposal would result in shooting of bulls (male elk), as opposed to cows (female elk). And it does not call for an unregulated hunt; instead, it leaves full discretion to the National Park Service to set appropriate rules for the volunteer hunters who would help to thin the herd. My proposal does no such thing.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2009

Cows and pigs need fresh air, sunlight and open space to engage in natural behaviors such as grazing and rooting for food, taking mud baths, and raising their young. Cramped crates aren't natural living conditions for calves and sows.

Farm Sanctuary

Animal Ethics

JUNE 10, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Greening the Herds: A New Diet to Cap Gas ” (news article, June 5): Your article about reducing methane emissions from dairy cows is welcome because of the attention it draws toward the substantial contribution that both beef and dairy cattle make to global warming.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. Yes, all food animals should meet a dignified end. Americans do have a special relationship with horses, and how we treat them reveals much about our own humanity and how far we have evolved.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Together, we can make a difference for these cows—as we work to make sure that animal cruelty laws are taken seriously. Would you be willing to post something on your site about the campaign? Information about the campaign can be found here. Also available are Free Baby Mendes banners for your website here.

Animal Legal Defense Fund

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism.

Meat

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. To the Editor: Re “ The Protein Pyramid ” (editorial, Nov. 10): Thank you for pointing out the unsustainability of the so-called protein pyramid.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

That depends on whether there are morally relevant differences between chickens and fish on the one hand and cows, pigs, and sheep on the other. (I I have had no other animal products (no beef, pork, lamb, or turkey, for example) since 1982. Am I a hypocrite? I believe there are.) Surely that counts for something, morally.

Vegetarian

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. This narrow, frankly ignorant point of view is complete hypocrisy.

Animal Rights Movement

Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

But the cow part? The irony of the cow part is that much of this Oprah show was about slavery. The irony of the inclusion of the cow in The Girl Effect is that it swaps one form of slavery for another. Yesterday was World AIDS Day and I anticipated her doing a thoughtful program, which I think she did. Human slavery, of course.

Cows

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., And that's the bad news.

Pigs