factory farming

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Mark Bittman: “Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”

Posted by zoeweil ⋅ March 21, 2011 ⋅ 1 Comment

I so appreciated Mark Bittman’s March 15 opinion piece in the New York Times, “Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.” Our hypocrisy surrounding the treatment of animals is stunning, and Bittman’s essay makes the point powerfully as he recounts the ASPCA’s arrest of a teenage girl for killing her sister’s hamster (a felony) while … Continue reading »

Educating About Eating Animals

Posted by zoeweil ⋅ March 14, 2011 ⋅ 4 Comments

Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have chosen Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals as the summer reading book for their incoming freshman for 2011. Rarely would summer reading for a college’s new students be newsworthy, but this one is. For a book that so carefully and comprehensively uncovers animal agriculture … Continue reading »

When Compromise Means Defending the Indefensible, It’s Time to Embrace Our Idealism

Posted by zoeweil ⋅ February 7, 2011 ⋅ 13 Comments

My friend and colleague, Mary Pat Champeau, brought over a Netflix video for a few of us to watch at the Institute for Humane Education. It was called The Girl in the Café, and I figured she’d just landed upon a really entertaining film and wanted to share it. “Just send it back when you’re … Continue reading »

What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For? How We Educate Our Children

Posted by zoeweil ⋅ October 6, 2010 ⋅ 8 Comments

In his excellent op-ed in the Washington Post, Princeton professor, Kwame Anthony Appiah, imagines what future generations will condemn us for, as we have condemned our ancestors for slavery and women’s disenfranchisement. Appiah mentions our prison systems, factory farming, and the isolation and institutionalization of our elderly. I think our descendants will also condemn us … Continue reading »