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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. What if slaughter were freed (miraculously) of all terror and pain?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. Surely a nation and a national press that can expend so much attention on the life and death of one racehorse should be able to muster the compassion to pass legislation that would end this cruelty. 30, 2007

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. We know that animals suffer as well. Maybe someday our legislators in New York will have the courage to follow in the footsteps of the states Mr.