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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. Tags: animal cruelty proposition 2 cattle farm animal welfare agribusiness. The faster they go, the greater the problems with animals being handled roughly and being improperly killed.

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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.