Critter News
APRIL 1, 2009
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. For other people, “humane” means it is okay to eat the animal as long as the following conditions are met: 1. In other words, the proverbial happy farm animal.
Critter News
JULY 22, 2011
THE DUTCH parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban the ritual slaughter of livestock. This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. Excerpted from the Irish Times.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. Berman said all milk products - everything from cheese to butter - got more expensive.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. Animals rescued from so-called humane farming establishments have been found in horrific condition.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. 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.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Need we feel guilty about being carnivorous? The best advice Ms. Contrary to Ms.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2008
There is also little dispute concerning the following premise: (4) The animals that become that meat are reared in ways that subject them to intense pain and suffering for much of their lives. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.
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