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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

Animal Person

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. And it’s much more humane than leaving them there to starve to death.”.

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On Wearable "Roadkill"

Animal Person

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.". Nonhuman animals are not here to be purposeful to humans. The final paragraph of the article is perhaps the most cringe-worthy.

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