Escaped Cow Goes to Sanctuary
Critter News
MAY 8, 2009
A cow that escaped from a slaughter house in NY City has been allowed to go to an animal sanctuary. Tags: meat animal rescue Slaughterhouse cows meatpacking.
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Study Claims Islamic Slaughtering More Humane
Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2008
I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. Tags: islam Slaughterhouse Germany cows. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins. What an utterly grotesque project.
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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business
Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
Let's deconstruct: The heading is: "Okay, so your steak comes from a cow that lived a happy life--but how did that life end?" It's a cow who--who--lived an allegedly happy life. And perhaps that "better" will distract the reader from the undeniable fact of the unjust slaughter. The needs of the cow aren't even mentioned.
On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter
Animal Person
APRIL 7, 2009
In other words, horses, like pigs and cows and chickens, are commodities whose worth has a dollar value to people, and we should be doing what we can do maximize that dollar value. Not approving the institutionalized slaughter of the horses we claim to hold so dear lowers that value. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.
On Being Upset by Carnage That Comes Too Soon
Animal Person
JUNE 16, 2009
In " Cows Killed by Lightning Strike ," by Angie Brown of the BBC Scotland, which today was updated to "Lightning Strike Kills Bullocks," we learn that Mr. McDougal was "very upset," numb and shocked by "the carnage he saw." That carnage wasn't observed after the animals were slaughtered, but before he could get to slaughter them.
On "The Wild"
Animal Person
AUGUST 5, 2009
The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. They are created to be slaughtered. Tags: Ethics Language. Yes, that's true.
On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China
Animal Person
JANUARY 27, 2010
It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? So we went from a ban to a vague statement about the prevention of abuse that clearly doesn't consider slaughter abusive. Or if it's brutal it is necessary.
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