Critter News

JUNE 6, 2012

This article reaffirms my belief that it's more humane to slaughter horses in the US than to ship them for slaughter to Canada or Mexico. I don't like it either way, but one is better than the other for sure.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. But that doesn't matter because it's the betrayal that I identify with.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Here is the letter: I’ve just received an urgent report that another city in China is planning a mass cull to slaughter any unregistered dogs, strays, and even registered family dogs that are over 14 inches (35cm) tall. Can you imagine being forced to kill your own dog to save it from a more brutal slaughter?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights chicken slaughter language Sara Lipka The Atlantic veganism. That's respect.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

22): PETA is proud to see that its hard work behind the scenes with Bell & Evans and other companies to encourage implementation of this new, less cruel form of slaughter is finally coming to fruition. To the Editor: Re “ New Way to Help Chickens Cross to Other Side ” (front page, Oct.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. For other people, “humane” means it is okay to eat the animal as long as the following conditions are met: 1. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act. Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In fact, both books glorify small farms (though Foer is more selective), and both have the support of people who create and kill animals. And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility. It's okay to choose violence when you don't need to.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity.

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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.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." Isn't it better for science, and more humane, to use just one animal?

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. Australian Dairy Farmers says calves can be left unfed for 30 hours before slaughter but the RSPCA says the practice is "cruel".

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

Yesterday , Abby wrote: Off topic, but I was wondering if you have any advice for those of us who are highly emotionally sensitive and also interested in animal welfare issues? I get so sad when I hear about the mistreatment of animals that it really affects me, but at the same time I want to be able to create change in the world.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. 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.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

The number of chickens, turkeys, pigs, cattle and other animals raised and slaughtered in the United States has been growing steadily for decades. In 1950, each American consumed, on average, 144 pounds of animal flesh a year. This comes at an enormous cost to animal welfare, the environment and of course public health.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com , in which Rep. David Scott (D-Ga), who is the chairman of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture draws a line in the sand regarding the animals we use and how we use them.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

As an Illinois state senator, he backed at least a dozen animal protection laws, including those to strengthen the penalties for animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering, and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.

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