Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Bo Obama celebrated his birthday with a doghouse cake made out of veal. When I was still a meat-eater, the two foods I would not touch were veal and lamb. Veal is especially cruel, even for factory farming, although now I think foie gras is a strong competitor. Tags: Obama veal bo obama.

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Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

Many diners are huge fans of its taste, describing the mammal's meat as somewhere between duck and veal. Tags: canada meat seals restaurants.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2011

I was preparing to pound my veal for some scaloppini. I gathered my meat mallet from the drawer, dropped it forcefully on my veal, and the shock of the blow on the counter did something, maybe it acted as a fish defibrillator, I don’t know, but suddenly Fighter leapt to life. But something happened.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure. And this is partly what’s so disappointing about the message of this book: Herzog amasses the research, and sees and does things that involve tremendous suffering and injustice.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are self-interested, health-based reasons to go vegetarian: The major killers of Americans--heart disease, cancer, and stroke--are all strongly positively correlated with meat consumption. So, by purchasing dairy products one is indirectly supporting the inherently cruel veal industry.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here.

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