Livestock Medical Slaughtered Vegan 
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? This is where I'm confused.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 2, 2007
March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, management and husbandry are more important than the type of production system for ensuring the health and well-being of pigs. That is never humane.
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