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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

As such, most people do not consider the potential abuse that may have taken place to bring their hamburger onto their dinner plate. Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. Most animals in the U.S.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

And it certainly doesn't follow that it is permissible to eat meat that comes from animals who were forced to endure horribly inhumane factory farm conditions and who were then slaughtered inhumanely. Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason.