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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

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. In other words, the perception of pain is affected.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Groups like the American Veterinary Medical Association support these modern egg-laying housing systems. These modern systems allow hens to stand up, turn around, lie down and walk to clean water and nutritious food troughs. The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars.