Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga., Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factory farming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Mr. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice. We know that animals suffer as well.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

But all those things form part of a complex human good, and I cannot help thinking that, when added to the ecological benefits of small-scale livestock farming, they secure for us an honourable place in the scheme of things, and neutralize more effectively than the vegetarian alternative, our inherited burden of guilt.

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