Animal Ethics
MAY 31, 2007
My cousins Craig and Kevin Hicks are dairy farmers, specializing in organic milk. They also sell pasture-fed beef and pasture-fed chicken. I spent some of the best times of my life on their farm in North Branch, Michigan. Here is their website.
Animal Ethics
MAY 30, 2007
How do you protest fox hunting? You eat a dog, of course! See here for details.
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Animal Ethics
MAY 27, 2007
To the Editor: Your overture in “ My Dear Fellow Species ” (Week in Review, May 20) to the 150th anniversary celebration of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species” through his letters is a fine attempt to briefly summarize his personality. But in a Darwin letter of April 3, 1880, which I have, where he thanks Georg Heinrich Schneider for sending him a copy of his recently published treatise “Der thierische Wille”—a valuable contribution to animal psychology—Darwin seems to sum up his life’s work in
Animal Ethics
MAY 23, 2007
To the Editor: Re “ Death by Veganism ,” by Nina Planck (Op-Ed, May 21): I am a nutritionist who testified as an expert witness for the prosecution in the criminal trial of the parents of Crown Shakur. As the lead prosecutor in this case told the jury, this poor infant was not killed by a vegan diet. He was starved to death by parents who did not give him breast milk, soy-based infant formula or enough food of any kind.
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Animal Ethics
MAY 19, 2007
Here , for your consideration, is the blog of a convert to ethical veganism.
Animal Ethics
MAY 18, 2007
Do fruit flies have free will? See here for what appears to be an affirmative answer. If fruit flies have free will, then it's possible for them to suffer from weakness of the will.
Animal Ethics
MAY 10, 2007
Here is a tragic story about misguided vegans. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) famously said that "There is no difficulty in proving any ethical standard whatever to work ill if we suppose universal idiocy to be conjoined with it." ( Utilitarianism [1861], chap. 2). The same could be said of any diet.
Animal Ethics
MAY 4, 2007
Here is a New York Times op-ed column about measures that are being taken to prevent injuries to race horses. Does anyone out there advocate abolition of horse racing? If so, on what ground?
Animal Ethics
MAY 2, 2007
There were 2,825 visitors to this blog during April. That's an average of 94.1 visitors per day, which is a record. Thanks for visiting. I hope to do more posting during the summer months, when I have more time. By the way, if you're a publisher and would like one of your books listed in the bibliography, please send me a copy for review.
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