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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. The faster they go, the greater the problems with animals being handled roughly and being improperly killed. Tags: animal cruelty proposition 2 cattle farm animal welfare agribusiness.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., Kristof’s column.