Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter. In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. These birds do not have to have access to the outdoors and are housed in such overcrowded sheds that they can barely move around, and yet, they are deceptively marketed as "free roaming" to conscientious compassionate consumers.

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Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Battery Cages Factory Farm 40