Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2008
I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. Tags: islam Slaughterhouse Germany cows. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins. What an utterly grotesque project.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Especially animal business. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. Tags: horse animal cruelty legislation Slaughterhouse us. The bill must be passed by the House and Senate before it can become law. Lovely quote.
Critter News
AUGUST 6, 2009
“The captivity industry keeps the slaughter going,” O’Barry charges in movie. Once penned, some dolphins are picked out by dolphin trainers and animal brokers for purchase and transport to amusement parks and resorts. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty. The cries of the dolphins are pathetic.
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2009
Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. The faster they go, the greater the problems with animals being handled roughly and being improperly killed.
Animal Person
JUNE 26, 2009
People in South Florida are still in an uproar over the mutilation and slaughter of 19 house cats (allegedly) by 18-year old Tyler Weinman, who was declared mentally competent and not a danger to himself or others (!). We don't say we hate pigs and want to see them writhing in pain and slaughtered. We don't say we hate cows.
Animal Person
APRIL 18, 2009
I long for the realistic hope that one second will pass without torture and slaughter and enslavement, and I know perfectly well that that second, despite Earth Days and Earth Hours and Meat-Free Days, isn't going to happen. In other words, I don't immerse myself in animal cruelty. Tags: Activism Current Affairs.
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