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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

Animal Person

The problem is that people are abandoning and neglecting horses, and to address that problem--to address the problem that people abandon horses--we'll kill the horses? Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant. Do we recommend killing those children? Financially).

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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.". Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. This isn't about what's morbid or what's not, and what's art and what's not.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

Of course, the problem here, as in the entire book, is that factory farming is clearly the enemy, while killing animals unnecessarily isn't given any more airtime than Foer's personal, philosophical moments that he doesn't require of anyone else. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi.