Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

While the decision did not ban any procedure or practice, “the Court further held that tail docking could not be considered humane, and [that] mutilations without anesthesia including castration, de-beaking and de-toeing could not be considered humane without some specific requirements to prevent pain and suffering,” the article notes.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming Farm Bureau 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Referring to battery-cage confinement, gestation-crate confinement, veal-crate confinement, and unanesthetized mutilations (including branding, castration, debeaking, tooth pulling, and tail docking) as "Acceptable Handling Practices" does not make those practices morally acceptable or humane.

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Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. In addition, the animals are subjected to excruciating mutilations – including branding, dehorning, debeaking, tooth pulling, tail docking, and castration – all performed without anesthesia.

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Vegetarian Meat Lacto-Ovo Ethics 40