Critter News
APRIL 1, 2009
The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products? In the author's words.
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Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. With successes like these, factory farmers do have cause for worry.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Honeyguides, for example, are strongly attracted to the smell of wax. Like the tube-nosed birds, new world vultures detect the smells of rotting meat carried by the winds. Birds use rectal bristles (at the base of the bill) and tiny touch factories called Herbst corpuscles to detect touch.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2008
For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
The wrongness of factory farming is overdetermined. Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming? Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians. See here for one sufficient ground. Instead, it seeks to reform it.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world. None of these assumptions seems plausible.
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