Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. But I’ll try to keep my answer as short as possible.) (As a side note, it’s important to remember that there were terrible abuses during and after the industrial revolution committed against human workers. Here is my opinion.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Not in words, of course, but they can answer in ways that we can understand if we are paying attention. The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. But we can ask, and they can answer. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Many of the beef industry’s problems result from feedlots that consume tremendous amounts of grain and that pour out huge sloughs of waste. If these policies were adopted, small-scale animal agriculture would be a more economical model, and people would eat less meat. It is essential for the industry’s survival.

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