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An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is... →
Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend... →
Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.
I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less... →
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or... →
Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the first hours of... →
I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer... →
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.
The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.
Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open... →
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and... →