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100,000 Salmon Released in Sweden

Critter News

These two fish farms are a part of the huge Swedish fish farming industry that kills over 5 billion fish every year. Fish are individuals who feel both pain and stress, and to breed, keep them in cages and kill them, however it is done, is unacceptable. For the animals! DBF (Swedish Animal Liberation Front)"

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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

Consider some of the victories: On November 5th, 2002, more than two and a half million Floridians voted "Yes" on Amendment 10 to amend the state constitution and prohibit the use of gestation crates , narrow metal cages where breeding pigs are kept for most of their lives. The full text of the amendment is available here.

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