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Are Farm Animals Usually Killed in a Humane Manner?

Critter News

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. The eventual kill is quick, clean, and painless. It's a thoughtful question I wish more people would ask.

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

While a nationwide vegan or vegetarian lifestyle change is highly unlikely, the abuse can be maintained through increased government regulation. Laws remain grossly inadequate as do practices at our nation’s slaughterhouses,” says Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur. Most animals in the U.S. Most animals in the U.S.

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Rescue Spotlight: Kitten Rescue

4 The Love Of Animals

Kitten Rescue’s goal is to help Los Angeles become a no-kill city. WHAT: The Kitten Rescue Fur Ball at the Skirball is an annual fundraiser dinner held to support Kitten Rescue’s programs and the Kitten Rescue Homeless Cat Sanctuary. Kitten Rescue volunteers place approximately 1,000 cats and kittens into new homes every year.

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On Children's Books, Introverts & Films

Animal Person

Working or volunteering at an animal sanctuary or shelter or participating (or starting) a Trap-Neuter-Release effort, maybe? which is a documentary co-produced by two young girls from NYC, one of whom was raised as a vegetarian. My usual recommendation for general What do I do? questions is two-fold: What are you good at/like to do?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

The tiresome Hitler was a well-known vegetarian comment is included in this segment, but I found it irksome long before that. I'd love to say that this was Engber's epiphany, and that he fought for Clayton's removal to a sanctuary and is now a powerful voice against the vivisection of sentient nonhumans. But that's now what happened.