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Snakes may die during the capture and transport process, or they may be housed inhumanely in a small aquarium they can barely fit into. And all of this trouble and suffering for what? You don’t take snakes for a walk or play with them in a field or let them sleep in your bed at night.

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Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factory farming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer.

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While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D.

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Animals raised for food suffer miserably. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.

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The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. To the Editor: Why would publicizing the ill treatment of slaughter-bound horses detract from the “undue suffering of other food animals,” as Christa Weil suggests? Yes, all food animals should meet a dignified end.

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Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. In an incredible juxtaposition to the fanfare of Barbaro, more than 100,000 horses were slaughtered last year in the United States and shipped to Europe and Japan for human consumption.

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Most people are shocked and appalled when they first read descriptions of factory farming and learn about the horribly inhumane conditions in which the billions of animals destined for dinner tables are raised, and they are even more appalled when they first see documentary footage of the institutional cruelties inherent in factory farming.

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