Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. Crowded and filthy conditions mean suffering for hens. Or corporate net income.

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Hens Eggs Investigation Animal Welfare South Carolina 100

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 22, 2007

Though it may be too late for too many, we can only hope that diseased animals are not left in pain but are humanely euthanized to end their suffering. In 2005, a survey commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare showed that the Chinese are similar to Americans in their concern for animals.

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New York Times International Fund For Animal Welfare Wayne Pacelle Humane Society Of The United States 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 21, 2007

If we’re going to raise farm animals and then kill them to eat them, we should say so. March 14, 2007 To the Editor: Contrary to the assertions in Nicolette Hahn Niman’s attack on modern pork production, America’s 67,000 pork producers treat their animals humanely. They don’t volunteer. Jill Appell Pres.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p. Nor ought we kill them without reason.

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