Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

that slaughters horses for human consumption. you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S. but that leaves open the possibility of slaughtering horses for human consumption abroad. Then, on July 5, 2007, U.S.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

This conclusion is drawn by Cleve Hicks, based on observations made during his 2007-2008 survey of towns, villages and forests in the Buta-Aketi region of the DRC. Poachers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) threaten the existence of the largest remaining continuous population of chimpanzees in the world.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Horses slaughtered in America today go not to feed the poor and the hungry but to satisfy the esoteric palates of wealthy diners in Europe and Japan. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

Just days before Barbaro was humanely put down, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act was reintroduced in Congress. In an incredible juxtaposition to the fanfare of Barbaro, more than 100,000 horses were slaughtered last year in the United States and shipped to Europe and Japan for human consumption.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2007

To the Editor: As sponsors of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act , we take issue with Christa Weil’s views on the horsemeat industry ( Op-Ed , March 5). The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty. Senator) Mary Landrieu (Rep.)

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2007

14): To the animals being slaughtered, it does not matter whether their killers are local or whether they will be eaten or displayed on a wall. To the Editor: Re “ Locavore, Get Your Gun ,” by Steven Rinella (Op-Ed, Dec. Their suffering is the same. Rebecca Sunshine Hartsdale, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

In this country, this lesson is usually less direct: that it is somehow logical to teach kids to love and respect animals while feeding them animals that have been raised and slaughtered in genuinely terrible conditions. 19, 2007 Note from KBJ: I would replace "living" with "sentient." Machtinger San Francisco, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. Dave Warner Director of Communications National Pork Producers Council Washington, March 28, 2007 To the Editor: Regardless of how “humanely” an animal is raised, it still has to be slaughtered to be eaten.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ The Bluefin Slaughter ” (editorial, Nov. 17): As a young man I was privileged to work for and to know Capt. Mayo II of Provincetown, Mass. He was the legendary sport fishing captain of the Chantey I, II and III, the inventor of skip baits and a lover of the oceans. We need to stop making holes in the world’s oceans.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens. All of the male hatchlings are either smothered or ground up alive. Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. Jean Bettanny Port Townsend, Wash.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept. The American Medical Association, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Academy of Pediatrics are among the more than 350 health, agriculture and other groups nationwide that have endorsed this bill.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements. The study was published in the December 2007 issue of the Public Library of Science’s journal PLOS Medicine. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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