Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. The pig industry, says Dr MacDougald, is marked by generally poor production and financial analysis.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 1, 2009
Regardless, they are joining Friends of Animals and Hearts for Animals on Saturday December 5. Horses Without Carriages International does a great job of explaining and showing the injustices of the horse-drawn carriage industry around the world.). I'm sure a lot went into that and I wonder why it is defined that way.
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Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
That system may treat sentient animals like car parts, ruin antibiotics we need for human medicine, and destroy rural communities by polluting our air and water, but at least it’s “efficient” (a word Mr. Hurst hammers three times). Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. But let’s not play psychiatrist with other animals’ minds.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Lawmakers, perhaps as a result of an international treaty, will prohibit the intensive rearing of at least large hoofed animals for food, on the ground that it is damaging to the natural environment. The best thing that one can do for animals, in the long run, is to persuade people to stop eating them.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
He differentiates those animals from what he calls "the cute animals" which is important and one of the few passages that I appreciated in this series. The fact that we care about--and fight for--animals based on how cute we have deemed them to be is disgraceful. But the entire industry is questionable.
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