Critter News
DECEMBER 3, 2009
Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. It could mean not only an end to killing animals for food, but also significantly aid the fight against climate change. Nevertheless there's potential here for two giant breakthroughs.
Animal Person
JUNE 22, 2009
No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. And regardless of how you treat someone when they're live and regardless of how you kill them, if you don't need to kill them and you're doing so merely to please your palate, how do you justify what you're doing?
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Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2012
At issue was whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed, and sold for human consumption preempted -- or nullified -- California Penal Code 599f.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. We carnivores have to become more benevolent.
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.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. I have visited many of the grotesque factory farms that now corrupt our rural landscapes.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. This makes perfect sense. The logic of this is ridiculous.
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