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Animal Person

The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.” Thomas Richard Concord, N.H., 21, 2008