Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. Ostrich industry in Egypt. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures. So, by purchasing dairy products one is indirectly supporting the inherently cruel veal industry. After several years of confinement and continual reimpregnation on a dairy farm, spent dairy cows are sent to slaughter where they are processed into ground beef.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We But the entire industry is questionable. It does not make them more or less a "tool."

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Even those actively involved in the industry typically admit that these modern animal rearing practices cause animals severe pain and stress. At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

At the same time connections between the food industry and government agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have become so incestuous that we should expect little from them. Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. 21, 2008

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Says DeGeneres: “Did you know that every year between 250 and 300 million turkeys are bred for slaughter in the United States? Sadly, the meat industry subjects turkeys to intolerable cruelty and treats them like inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities. More than 46 million for Thanksgiving alone.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.

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