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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. “Most animals in the U.S.

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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. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane.