10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. It is being hunted solely for food, and those who kill them certainly want their meat exported by any criminal channel available. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal. No one is going to stuff it and put on a mantlepiece.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2022
Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.
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Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
"While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." But by presenting that example to the reader, the author positions herself to then present an alternative that is worlds better by comparison.
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. You are not processing their wellbeing, but their carcasses for meat. Here is my opinion.
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. Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p. No one disputes premise (3). Running time: 12 Minutes. How might one defend premise (6)?
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
A vegetarian of the first sort has no grounds for objecting to the eating of animals—molluscs for example—too rudimentary in their development to feel pain. Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.
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