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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. Most animals in the U.S. I certainly didn't.

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Terrible News. US Supreme Court Strikes Down California "Downer Cow" Law

Critter News

A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was unanimously overturned Monday by the Supreme Court. And it was a unanimous decision. Read the full story at CNN. The FMIA expressly preempts such a state law.".

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1001 Journals-Rescue Dogs

Animal Person

Here's the process: 1 - Register with 1001journals.com. 6 - Subject matter can be anything about rescue dogs / humane treatment of animals and you can use any medium. Here's the process: 1 - Register with 1001journals.com. Here 's the page for the project on the 1001 Journals site.

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

What the utilitarian who defends human carnivorousness must say, then, is something like this: that the amount of pleasure which humans derive per pound of animal flesh exceeds the amount of discomfort and pain per pound which are inflicted on the animals in the process, all things taken into account.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly.