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Animal Ethics
AUGUST 17, 2008
More barbarous, or less barbarous, such slaughtering may undoubtedly be, according to the methods employed, but the "humane" slaughtering, so much bepraised of the sophist, is an impossibility in fact and a contradiction in terms. Henry S.
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Field & Stream executive editor David Petzal defines fair chase as 'stalking an animal on its own terms.' I could go on and on.
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Animal Person
JUNE 22, 2009
Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. No one needs to eat sentient beings, so it's not as if these "farmers" are providing a valuable service to humanity. It's cruel.
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.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already. If people had to see what these animals are subjected to or take an active role in their deaths, I believe many more people would think before they eat.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. The reason that the industry is losing the argument is quite simple: There is no ethical justification for causing an animal to suffer unnecessarily.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. After two or three laying cycles when their egg production begins to wane, the layer hens are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and sent to slaughter, where they are processed into chicken soup and pet food.
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