10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters !

Slaughter 162

Slaughter Slaughtered Hunters Pennsylvania 162

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. Berman said all milk products - everything from cheese to butter - got more expensive.

Cows 100

Cows Killing Seattle Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

to eliminate the most toxic of their ingredients and to repackage their products more safely. EPA began cancellation proceedings, and at the eleventh hour Liphatech and Spectrum Group pulled the most dangerous of their products from the shelves. Scroll to the bottom for a list of products you can boycott.

Rats 249

Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 249

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

where 10 billion animals are raised and slaughtered needlessly for food each year, Regan's books remain as relevant today as when they were first published. Each of us can help bring an end to these terrible things by not eating animals, not wearing animals, not purchasing products tested on animals, and not consuming animal products.

2017 75

2017 Raleigh Animal Advocacy Animal Rights 75

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. There is an abundance of information on the web about undercover investigations, livestock conditions, slaughter procedures, etc. Animals are raw materials to process for product.

Farm Animal 100

Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming Factory Farm 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

People whose careers involve creating, fattening, transporting and slaughtering sentient nonhumans whose parts and secretions will then be used as food are having some financial difficulties. First let's deconstruct: The recession has caused a decrease in demand for animal products. Along with the rest of the country. Translation?

Afghanistan 100

Afghanistan DC Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. We all know junk-food vegans and vegans who eat "faux meat" products every day.

Vegan 100

Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter 100

Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

But though the pigs weren't originally destined for a mass grave, weren't they destined for slaughter nonetheless? What does that look like for pigs who have been brought into this world for the sole purpose of being products to be traded and eventually killed? Here's my question: What is "a humane future?"

Egypt 100

Egypt Culling Pigs Compassion In World Farming 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The film Partitions (running time: 14 min) by Audrey Kali gives an intimate glimpse of the ethical struggles that five small-scale meat farmers face when their animals are slaughtered. In this film, we see farmers interacting with the animals they will eventually transform into food (chickens, pigs and cattle).

Farming 40

Farming Humane Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The main difference is that Foer doesn't eat meat (though he does, as it turns out, eat some animal products) and he challenges the cultural assumptions that tell us that some animals are for petting and some are for eating. But the net message is the same: factory farming=bad, small farms=good.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder. What if slaughter were freed (miraculously) of all terror and pain? To rest easy, those who buy or sell products from nonhuman bodies must forget that each victim suffered personal loss of freedom, well-being, and life" (140).

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter. Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The Argument from Glass-Walled Slaughter Houses Mel Morse, former president of the Humane Society of the United States, once remarked: “If every one of our slaughter houses were constructed of glass this would be a nation of vegetarians.” For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Humane Society Of The United States Slaughter 40

Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity. Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting !

Veal Crate 100

Veal Crate HSUS Vegan Gestation Crates 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

The site says food production factories are included , but I doubt that means those involving the slaughter of animals.). The kids made tortillas from scratch and then went to a factory to see how professionals do it. Any other factories on the agenda? Removing skin and bones from a chicken breast was "slimy and gushy and.

Cooking 100

Cooking Chickens Factory Monkeys 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

The smaller the demand for meat, the lower its price; the lower the price, the lower the profit; and the lower the profit, the fewer the animals that will be raised and slaughtered on factory farms. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Slaughter 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are environmental reasons to go vegetarian: The production of animal-derived foods is implicated in every major environmental problem. This FAO report goes on to note that livestock production is a major contributor to "land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity."

Lacto-Ovo 40

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nor could he object to meat-eating if the slaughter were completely painless and the raising of animals at least as comfortable as life in the wild. Such a vegetarian will, however, object to the drinking of milk, since the production of milk requires a painful separation between cow and calf. (He Philip E.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Morals Cows 40

Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e., Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? makes some fantastic points that are worth repeating and deconstructing. Paul Watson 's response is, I think, the right one.

Foie Gras 100

Foie Gras Seals Protest Protesting 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies. Scott Plous Middletown, Conn.,

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat Sheep 40

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Dr. David Jentsch says to his colleagues "your silence will no longer protect you" and his community of vivisectionists has decided to have a pro-torture and slaughter (i.e., What Jentsch is doing is counter-productive. Animal Testing "). Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans."

Animal Liberation Front 100

Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

Animal Person

JULY 6, 2009

You can't pull the god card to claim superiority over the rest of us so you demonize the consumption of animal products. You purposefully choose to ignore facts like that though when citing the "cruelty and injustice" involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals. You're hypocrites essentially, and the worst kind in my opinion.

Vegan 100

Vegan Lifestyle Fast Food Farming 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. Stenholm is a spokesperson for the "Horse Welfare Coalition"—a quintessential illustration of doublespeak, for the Horse Welfare Coalition is an inappropriately named organization that is working to keep horse slaughter legal in the United States.

Factory 40

Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

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. Eating dead animals and animal products is bad for people, bad for animals and bad for the planet. Finally, organic doesn’t mean safe.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York San Diego 2007 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars. As a country, we place so little value on the creatures that give up their lives to satisfy our hunger.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

Once one bears in mind that it is this comparative assessment that is required, then it seems to me there will be a strong case (1) for Humane Slaughter, and humane treatment prior to slaughter, and (2) insofar as really painless and comfortable animal-raising is not attained or attainable, giving vegetarianism a try, at least.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Vegetarian Cooking Slaughter 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Meat, however, purchased at the supermarket, externally packaged and internally laced with petrochemicals, fattened in feed lots, slaughtered impersonally, and, in general, mechanically processed from artificial insemination to microwave roaster, is an affront not only to physical metabolism and bodily health but to conscience as well.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Wild animals and native plants have a particular place in nature, according to the land ethic, which domestic animals (because they are products of human art and represent an extended presence of human beings in the natural world) do not have. as is the humane ethic.

Ethics 40

Ethics Animal Liberation Whales Whaling 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Whereas those arguments maintain that grain-eating animals should not be slaughtered, this argument is at least consistent with the position that they should be: grain-eating animals, it might be maintained by a new moral vegetarian, should be slaughtered to prevent them from eating more grain and producing new grain-eating offspring.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Need we feel guilty about being carnivorous? The best advice Ms. Contrary to Ms.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Medicinal and commercial uses of ostrich products in Tanzania. Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. As the world’s largest living bird, the Ostrich is the topic of many weird and wonderful scientific papers. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability.

Ostriches 147

Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. If we are not justified in eating mackerel ourselves, are we not also morally obligated to stop the slaughter brought on by the tuna? David Peters New York, Nov.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements. Even those actively involved in the industry typically admit that these modern animal rearing practices cause animals severe pain and stress.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Lacto-Ovo Ethics 40

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Yet he spends time describing the miserable deaths of day-old male chicks and understands what happens in dairy production, and I assume he doesn't partake of anyone's eggs or milk. He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." But why does he say "vegetarian?"

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

"Desperate to drive up prices by stemming the gusher of unwanted milk, a dairy industry group, the National Milk Producers Federation, has been paying farmers to send herds to slaughter. Their minds don't whirl and scream with the injustice of sentient beings enslaved and treated as units of production. They're our "best friends."

Cows 100

Cows Stray Dog New York Times Culling 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Buying dairy products supports them. That doesn't mean that 99% of dairy products are from family farms , as the average number of cows on each family farm is just over 100. Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals. It doesn't matter to me, but let's for a moment examine the 99%.

Family 100

Family Factory Farm Factory Farming Cows 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. The number of chickens, turkeys, pigs, cattle and other animals raised and slaughtered in the United States has been growing steadily for decades. To the Editor: Re “ The Protein Pyramid ” (editorial, Nov.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40