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Study Claims Islamic Slaughtering More Humane

Critter News

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. What an utterly grotesque project.

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German Court Bans PETA "Holocaust" Campaign

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Touchy subject there in Germany. The German constitutional court has ruled that animal rights organisation PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) must end its campaign in which it draws a comparison between the Holocaust and industrial farming.

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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

Half of the sixteen German states already have some sort of animal rights provisions in their constitutions. But a change in the common law (which Germany does not have) may be the most likely of all. Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap. 7 in The State of the Animals II , ed. Salem and Andrew N.

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