Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? 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 Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Also, an update on Emily's 50% vegan (Ami) diet. 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

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JULY 19, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

Compassionate consumers can take a stand against this cruelty by choosing vegan options. ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014' It is no more acceptable to confine 60 hens for their entire lives in a cage that you report is “about the size of a Ford F-150 pickup truck’s flatbed” than it would be to treat 60 cats similarly.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan. Elaine Sloan New York, Jan. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan.

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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. Vegan chefs Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero are doing their part to put an end to the misconception that vegan cuisine is boring and bland. Still skeptical about how tasty vegan fare can be?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ In-Flight Plight of a Famished Vegan ” (“Frequent Flier” column, Business Day, Sept. Unhealthy airport food is a nuisance for vegetarians and vegans, but it affects all exhausted travelers seeking nutritious meals to help them make it to their destinations.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

11), about vegan-friendly fashion: Not only is it chic to wear fashion that has some conscience and imagination to it, but there also is a marvelous inner feeling of knowing that one is not using one’s clothing to wage a war on nature. To the Editor: Re “ Uncruel Beauty ” (Thursday Styles, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 18, 2008

All food that comes from plants is cholesterol-free, so a vegetarian or vegan diet does wonders for lowering cholesterol levels. Humans, and most animals, produce cholesterol naturally, but the problem is when we “supplement” this biologically occurring substance. That is when I went vegetarian.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism. Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn., Borrowing a move from the tobacco industry, Ms. Contrary to Ms. Thus, it’s not enough to say that Americans should “cut back on consumption of animal-based foods.”

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Going vegan is the best way to combat this environmental nightmare, improve your health and stand up against the animal cruelty so prevalent in factory farms today. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., 10, 2008 To the Editor: Your editorial sets forth a real, serious problem but proposes a futile solution.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Many vegans and animal rights activists "have a book in them" but soon discover, despite their well-crafted book proposal and sample chapters, that most mainstream publishers aren't interested. And just for clarity, I'm not talking about using Xlibris and the like, which are print-on-demand companies.)

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Keith, On Sunday, October 4, Farm Sanctuary held the largest Walk for Farm Animals in New York City history. Special guest Jane Velez-Mitchell , host of HLN’s “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell,” delivered one of the most powerful pro-vegan, pro-animal speeches I’ve ever heard.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

This was two years after Robert Nozick discussed the moral status of nonhuman animals in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974) and one year after Peter Singer published Animal Liberation (New York: Avon Books, 1975). I read Martin’s essay only recently, having discovered it by accident.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. David Peters New York, Nov.

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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. Contrary to Ms.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

I went back to New York to the areas where I grew up and went to college and graduate school for a five-day weekend. Therefore, one of the many things we need, aside from the obvious of more vegan parents, is a line of nonspeciesist books for each age/stage. I'd been longing for NYC and, as usual, thinking about moving back.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. Animals rescued from so-called humane farming establishments have been found in horrific condition. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed. Every meal, for me, is a celebration of life.

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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. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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OCTOBER 30, 2007

As a longtime vegan with three vegan-from-birth children, I would like to suggest that since vegetarians are generally healthier than meat eaters, there is no excuse for compassionate people to eat animals. To the Editor: Re “ Two Pigs ” (The Rural Life, Oct.

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APRIL 2, 2007

The next logical step for those who eat in restaurants is to demand more vegetarian-vegan options on their menus. Eating dead animals and animal products is bad for people, bad for animals and bad for the planet. Judith Abeles San Diego, March 26, 2007

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry. McDonald’s, are you listening?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens. All of the male hatchlings are either smothered or ground up alive. Jean Bettanny Port Townsend, Wash.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

The breast milk of vegan mothers is fully nutritious for infants, and contains the full compliment of energy, protein, and vitamins, needed for the rapid growth of life's first half year. Michael Klaper, Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet , p.

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