Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Paragraph #4 starts with: "Undeniably, neither I nor anyone I know advocates or even tolerates the inhumane treatment of farm animals." The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system.

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Emotional Farm Animal Farmed Animals Agenda 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. There is another reason that could be given for not eating meat in view of the present inhumane treatment of animals. 26) that in order to compensate for a declining birth rate in the U.S., milk production.

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