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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

The voice of Temple Grandin is of course the foundation. But of course the success of the author in manipulating the reader depends on the reader's belief that the paradox is indeed "ostensible.". And perhaps that "better" will distract the reader from the undeniable fact of the unjust slaughter. It is murder. Where to begin.

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On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux

Animal Person

The voices of Jim Vandersluis and Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary were especially poignant, and the anguish in their faces--in their eyes--jumps off the screen as they explain how and when it hit them that the business of raising goats for milk requires surrendering the babies to be slaughtered. For all of us.

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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us

Animal Person

Of course, Lobo is missing the point entirely. Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture." And of course what we do is about the issues. The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting !

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Philip E. Devine on Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild. Of course one could be a vegetarian on both grounds, and object to anything either kind of vegetarian objects to. Nor could he object to the painless killing of wild animals.

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

And most of us, of course, just don't know about this. How do we know but what, once we got used to a vegetarian diet, we would find that our pleasure is scarcely diminished at all? Human ingenuity is great, and undoubtedly a skilful vegetarian cook can come up with quite a panoply of delicious dishes.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. News flash: Slaughtering horses does not promote their welfare.

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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590.