Critter News
JULY 22, 2011
THE DUTCH parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban the ritual slaughter of livestock. This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries.
Animal Person
MAY 9, 2009
The e-mail continues: " ARFF contends that lobsters suffer tremendously when they are relegated to tiny tanks and subjected to loud noises, prodding and pulling by a mechanical claw, and prolonged starvation. What do you think of this campaign?
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
He says it's unacceptable for wild horses that embody the spirit of the American West to be slaughtered. The crusade she started--which included a massive letter-writing campaign and eventually a beloved children's book--culminated in 1971 with enactment of the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act. Here is what Rep.
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Many of the LGUs have replied, some of them many times.
Animal Person
MAY 30, 2009
If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others. I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity. Of course, Lobo is missing the point entirely. The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting !
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. That exemption remains in force, despite Schwindaman's later attempts to overturn it. And for what?
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