Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. That’s right, for me—but it may not be for others. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public. Push-ups, sit-ups, carrying 50-pound bags of bird seed—and I will be 71 in May.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Debeaking Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Lacto-Ovo Meat Ethics 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. Jean Bettanny Port Townsend, Wash.,

New York Times 40

New York Times Battery Cages New York Debeaking 40