Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. Tags: animal cruelty proposition 2 cattle farm animal welfare agribusiness.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The discussion about the environment usually originates in the massive problems created by the factory farming of sentient nonhumans. The arguments against factory farming, which most recently were articulated by Jonathan Safran Foer (who has caused quite a stir in the mainstream), are legion. You are choosing violence.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. The animals were still bred and raised for slaughter, but evidently in some kind of soulful way we don't really hear about. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful. I'm on my way.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Some key words are in English at the website, which gives clear instructions for streaming.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The Argument from Glass-Walled Slaughter Houses Mel Morse, former president of the Humane Society of the United States, once remarked: “If every one of our slaughter houses were constructed of glass this would be a nation of vegetarians.” Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I have no idea why Martin thinks Morse is arguing.

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Morals Vegetarian Humane Society Of The United States Slaughter 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Ever, in fact.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." And they certainly wouldn't hurt anybody; that's what those big factory farms do that aren't owned by families. Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

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. He is letting his attachment to eating animals and his attachment to his constituents profiting from their slaughter cloud his decision making.

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