Modern Day Cattle Rustlers
Critter News
MARCH 30, 2009
Crashing through a gate in the dead of night, thieves using trucks and trailers recently robbed a farmer here of 53 Brahman crossbreed cows valued at some $50,000. Tags: cows.
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Quote of the Week
Critter News
MARCH 30, 2009
How many meat-eaters would cut the throat of a cow themselves, and hack open its belly with a knife to empty its intestines? But the thousands of daily deaths of animals are hidden away and on the butcher's shelf meat looks innocuous, nothing like the living thing it was.
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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter
Animal Person
APRIL 7, 2009
In other words, horses, like pigs and cows and chickens, are commodities whose worth has a dollar value to people, and we should be doing what we can do maximize that dollar value. Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. Financially). It’s just an option for horses that are unusable.
Dutch May Ban Kosher Slaughter of Livestock
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JULY 22, 2011
Dutch law requires animals to be stunned before slaughter, but has long allowed an exemption for Muslims and orthodox Jews, who can legally butcher animals according to their centuries-old dietary rules.
On Wearable "Roadkill"
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.".
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