Animal Person
JULY 1, 2009
Calf-roping (which of course is a hideous practice, but so are the rest of the animal-related rodeo activities). But the HSUS is by no means an animal-rights organization; it is an animal welfare organization. Safe, unharmed rodeo animals is an oxymoron). The Vancouver Humane Society wants to ban calf-roping. Not the rodeo.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The dark secret behind factory farm profits—cruel and inhumane animal husbandry—is getting out. Factory farmers treat animals inhumanely for no good reason.
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Animal Ethics
JANUARY 24, 2007
Most people are shocked and appalled when they first read descriptions of factory farming and learn about the horribly inhumane conditions in which the billions of animals destined for dinner tables are raised, and they are even more appalled when they first see documentary footage of the institutional cruelties inherent in factory farming.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
It can be argued instead that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent or approval to the present situation, that the only way to be true to one’s moral conviction that the present treatment of animals is inhumane is not to eat meat. The trouble is, of course, that it is not clear what tacit approval is supposed to mean.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 24, 2006
Macy's should do the right thing and take out television and newspaper ads inviting anyone who purchased such a falsely-labeled jacket from any of its stores an opportunity to return the jackets for a full refund. The treatment of the dogs can't really be as bad as I have described, right? Just how do Chinese workers kill raccoon dogs?"
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