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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

Critter News

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning. Ranchers oppose the move.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

Scientific research and expertise are needed here. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. Second, it might be argued that although it is wrong to kill microorganisms, it is not obvious that eating them kills them.

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