From barnes992001 at yahoo.com  Mon Oct 22 14:20:50 2007
From: barnes992001 at yahoo.com (Steve Barney)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:20:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Seac] Will UWO become "Cage-Free Campus"?
Message-ID: <745149.79140.qm@web51711.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Will UWO follow the lead of Princeton University, Hamline University,
and about 160 other college campuses in the US, toward becoming a
more humane, sustainable, and "cage-free campus"?:

"A step in the right direction"
By Jenny Palmer '09 and Peter Singer
Guest Columnists
The Daily Princtonian
September 28, 2007
  Most Princeton students ? and probably most New Jersey residents
?have never visited an egg farm. Yet a recent decision by Dining
Services has greatly improved the lives of the hens laying eggs for
its cafeterias, and it has helped to inform students and community
members of the suffering that these birds are forced to endure. ...
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/09/28/opinion/18761.shtml

"Hamline University Joins Snowballing Minnesota Cage-Free Egg Trend"
Press Release from HSUS
October 17, 2007
http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/pressrel/hamline_university_cage_free_101707.html

HSUS Campaign: Cage-Free Campus
http://www.hsus.org/farm/camp/nbe/cagefreecampus


Educate yourself on the ethics of eating:

Food, Ethics and the Environment
Nov 16-17, 2006 at Princeton University  
A 5-part conference exploring the broad and compelling issues and
ethical dilemmas surrounding food production in the U.S., and the
choices individuals make regarding the food they eat. Including Peter
Singer, Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, and others.
STREAMING VIDEO ARCHIVE
http://uc.princeton.edu/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1345&Itemid=20



Steve Barney
Oshkosh, WI


_____________
"We are perfectly willing to stake the whole question [of the difference between right and wrong] on this one issue. Granted that any practice causes more pain to [nonhuman] animals than it gives pleasure to man; is that practice moral or immoral? And if, exactly in proportion as human beings raise their heads out of the slough of selfishness, they do not with one voice answer "immoral," let the morality of the principle of utility [aka the happiness principle] be for ever condemned." 
--From John Stuart Mill, "Whewell on Moral Philosophy," in Mill's 
_Collected Works_, vol. X.
Accessed from http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/241/21497 on 2007-09-05

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