article thumbnail

On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. What about being torn from your family? What about boredom and frustration?

article thumbnail

From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Groups like the American Veterinary Medical Association support these modern egg-laying housing systems. The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet there is no scientific proof that the requirement will improve chicken well-being or food safety.