Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. And while there are varying estimates, it takes between 3 and 15 pounds of grain to produce a pound of meat. But “encouraging healthy, less meat-based eating habits” will do nothing to ameliorate the situation.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

But the vested interests are very strong, and consumers have become accustomed to artificially low prices for meat. His new column offers hope for animals and help for people. 2, 2011 Note from KBJ: Only someone who doesn't understand torture could think that meat production involves torture. Ken Swensen Pound Ridge, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

The United States Department of Agriculture purchases food, including high-fat meat and dairy products, under the direction of Congress based on agricultural surpluses and price support activities to help American agriculture producers. The cheeseburgers and meat tacos our children eat at school also deserve our full attention.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

about the world food crisis, Paul Krugman doesn’t mention an obvious and important solution: Eat less meat. With a little experimentation, anyone can find satisfying substitutes for meat that will improve personal health and the health of the planet at the same time.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Hooked on Meat ,” by Mark Bittman (column, June 2): The other day, I asked the manager of our local chain grocery store why we were offered only Peruvian asparagus in the springtime. Why do we eat so much meat? Remember when fresh, locally grown asparagus would come in? Why eat produce that has no flavor?

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 19, 2009

Kristof , I’m not opposed to hog farmers or people consuming meat. But we are paying the price for having as much meat as we want, whenever we want, and cheaply, too. To the Editor: Like Nicholas D. Technology can control nature only for so long.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 29, 2009

What will it take for us, and our public health leaders, to question our addiction to meat and tolerance of factory farming? The meat industry is environmentally devastating, incredibly inhumane and now potentially the end to us all.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 13, 2012

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about "sustainable meat."

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

To the Editor: Mark Bittman wants to outlaw confined livestock feeding operations because, he says, they harm the environment, torture animals and make meat less safe (“ A Food Manifesto for the Future ,” column, Feb. We take issue with him on all three points.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about the cloning of animals for meat.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products? Rory Freedman, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Skinny Bitch, proclaims “If you want to create a better world, read this book!”

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 21, 2008

PETA is offering a $1,000,000 reward to anyone who creates commercially viable in vitro meat. I don't see any ethical problem with producing or consuming such meat. Addendum: Here is a New York Times story about the reward.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

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. To the Editor: The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases is generated by livestock production, more than by transportation.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ More Perils of Ground Meat ” (editorial, Jan. Jeremy Russell Director of Communications and Government Relations National Meat Association Oakland, Calif., The American food safety system is the highest standard in the world, and our ground beef is the safest.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 2, 2008

Oberlin students can time showers all they want, but one burger will cost them the equivalent of a 45-minute shower every day for a week! Reducing meat consumption, particularly of beef, is one of the simplest and most rewarding things we can do. Nadia Eghbal Tübingen, Germany, May 26, 2008

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 28, 2008

24) regarding the dangers of eating bluefin tuna because of high levels of mercury did not mention (as The Times has done on previous occasions) another, equally compelling reason to avoid consuming the meat of this fish: the bluefin tuna has been so overexploited that the species is on the brink of extinction.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

That system may treat sentient animals like car parts, ruin antibiotics we need for human medicine, and destroy rural communities by polluting our air and water, but at least it’s “efficient” (a word Mr. Hurst hammers three times).

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Animal Ethics

JULY 18, 2008

Cholesterol is found only in foods derived from animals, like meat, cheese and eggs. Humans, and most animals, produce cholesterol naturally, but the problem is when we “supplement” this biologically occurring substance. I suppose you can say that I started to control my cholesterol level 17 years ago when I was a young woman.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 15, 2008

If Mr. Nocera actually had such clairvoyant powers over the meat-packing industry, why didn’t he put them to use last autumn and blow the whistle on the Westland/Hallmark slaughter plant? Nocera tells us that most slaughterhouses don’t mistreat animals or funnel sick downer cows into the food chain. Oh, really?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

And I would have to make a report to the United States Department of Agriculture any time a hen gets out and runs onto the neighbor’s property, or pay a $1,000 fine. This program will create havoc on America’s small farms.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

To preserve the effectiveness of our antibiotics, all meat producers need to back away from the overuse of drugs. Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Next, to today's New York Times and Gary Steiner 's fantastic Op-ed called " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,"which begins with: "LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised." (Try Try not to think about the "meat" being "raised" and the "it."

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong. But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens. 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.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

in today's New York Times, and I couldn't resist posting. A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. And then I read the "OMG!!!!!OED!!!!!LOL!!!!!"

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). The Botai did not just herd horses for meat.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about mixed couples, and no, I'm not talking about race, religion, or politics.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Here is a New York Times op-ed column by philosopher Gary Steiner.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 1, 2009

Here is a New York Times story about seal meat.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about goat meat.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2007

According to this New York Times story, goat is "the most widely consumed meat in the world."

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

The editorial board of the New York Times weighs in on in vitro meat. I can't be sure, since the editorial opinion is so jumbled, but the board seems to be arguing that people should continue to eat meat, provided the animals whose flesh they consume are not made to suffer.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 4, 2007

See here for a New York Times editorial opinion on this topic. One way for meat-eaters to send a message to the beef industry is to stop consuming beef. Consumers have a right to know not only the nutritional value (if any) of the foods they eat, and not only whether it was organically produced, but where it originated.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Kristof of the New York Times. Kristof writes, by way of apology for his "hypocrisy," that he eats meat ("albeit with misgivings") and has "no compunctions about using mousetraps." Eating meat and using mousetraps are as different (morally speaking) as night and day. Eating meat cannot be so justified.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians. Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2007

People who have eaten meat and dairy products their entire lives, often simply can't imagine what vegans eat. Moskowitz and Romero are featured in this New York Times article, which highlights their efforts to show people just how easy and fun it is to create sumptuous vegan meals.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Of course, the meat is more expensive since it takes lots of real estate to freely graze a herd, and it’s tougher than typical supermarket fare (Americans are used to a style of marbling that’s caused by grain diets and flabby cattle, whereas grass-fed cows are trim from their daily ambles). Andrew Rimas Evan D. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass.,

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