AVMA News

APRIL 4, 2023

Speakers at the AVMA Humane Endings Symposium, held January 26-29 in Chicago, shared their personal experiences with depopulation of cattle and sheep for disease control and euthanasia of pigs after a fire.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. We humans, herbivores like ruminants, are fine with one stomach -- we don't eat the really tough stuff like grass. Let me know if you hear the show!

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Reddit Animals

JUNE 15, 2021

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

Suppose someone enjoys drinking the blood of cattle and hogs. Suppose there was a breed of sheep that became very ill when the sheep’s fleece was removed; they did not function normally. If, on the other hand, the legs are produced in factory conditions, there is a moral objection.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. To quote Wikipedia the effects it has on the body: In humans, the symptoms of poisoning normally appear between 30 minutes and three hours after exposure. It is without question an unpleasant way to die for any animal.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If beef cattle who could not feel pain were developed, then it would be permissible to eat them. KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. Why should microorganisms be sacrificed rather than humans?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? This physical evidence of properly handled cattle would go a long way toward ensuring healthier meat while lifting the shared burden that comes with consigning millions of animals yearly to a terrifyingly cruel death. Peters Paso Robles, Calif.,

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