I have to say, however, while I agree with you that the animals in zoos should be allowed to live free in the wild, with the way that people from around the world are destroying habitat, the only place safe for tigers may be zoos. (BTW–most zoo animals were born in captivity, and lots of zoos have breeding programs where they breed animals in captivity and release them into the wild. People don’t eat these animals.)

And with global warming and polar ice melting, the only place for polar bears to be safe may well be zoos. In fact, zoos may save these species from extinction.

The thought of a world without tigers and polar bears makes me want to weep–but there you are.

Every time you see the evil of humanity–such as in the video that fomented this beef recall, you see other humans doing their best to save animals–from other humans, from extinction, from global warming.

And yes, I agree with Karyn. There are very few vegans in India. There are plenty of vegetarians, but dairy products are widely used in Indian cuisine, both in the north and the south.

For indigenous vegan cuisines, you need to look to the Buddhists in China and Japan. The foods of the monasteries in those countries is vegan, in large part, because dairy foods were seldom seen in these countries. (There are exceptions. Some tribespeople in China eat dairy products, and in Mongolia and Tibet, which are now claimed by China, there is a tradition of using yak’s milk and butter in their food.)

Please people ,donot enjoy poor animals which are in captivation at Zoos. They are born free and are supposed to live free.

Animals have equal rights just as we do.

I’m not convinced that I object to the idea of animal consumption, though it eating chicken, pork, or beef is not something I’m interested in at this point.

I stopped eating those animals when I learned how evil factory farming is - I couldn’t afford grassfed organic meat, and had never enjoyed meat enough to justify spending extra on organic or spending less on supermarket meat. I’ve always been happy with my decision, but I know it’s not for everybody.

That being said, I think if you do choose to eat meat, you should eat meat from an animal that has not spent its life suffering. People should eat less meat and should spend more for their burgers.

The problem is the scale of meat production and people’s belief in their “right” to cheap meat three times a day, which is unhealthy for everybody involved.

I have seen dairy cows treated properly and with respect (and otherwise) and there’s a huge difference in their health, happiness, and quality of life.

My problem is this: how do I know which dairies do respect the animals that provide them their living?

A vegan, actually, gave me this site, which ranks large scale organic dairies. I only wish I could find something similar about goat and sheep farms, since I prefer their milk products:

http://cornucopia.org/dairysurvey/index.html