May, 2007

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Organic Milk

Animal Ethics

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.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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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Freedom of the Will

Animal Ethics

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.

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Veganism

Animal Ethics

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.

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Equine Breakdown

Animal Ethics

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?

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The Perils of Veganism

Animal Ethics

Do fetuses and infants need animal products in order to survive and flourish? See here.

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Fox and Hound

Animal Ethics

How do you protest fox hunting? You eat a dog, of course! See here for details.

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Ethical Veganism

Animal Ethics

Here , for your consideration, is the blog of a convert to ethical veganism.

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Global Warmism

Animal Ethics

How big is your meat footprint? See here.

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Cow Flesh

Animal Ethics

The demand for beef is soaring.

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