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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. If Loos thinks that animal agribusiness will win the argument on ethical grounds, he is sorely mistaken. News flash: Slaughtering horses does not promote their welfare. ii) reasons for banning horse slaughter in the U.S.,

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. It flies on. photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Not when we have but 400 to spare.

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