Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Here's an example.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. I’m not unsympathetic to concerns about animal welfare, really. To a point.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. Capturing wild animals for live trade and captivity should not be permitted.
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