Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." And perhaps that "better" will distract the reader from the undeniable fact of the unjust slaughter. It is murder. Where to begin.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
Laysan albatrosses are ocean-dwelling seabirds who have 6-foot wingspans, weigh 7-8 pounds, occasionally sleep while flying, and rarely land except to raise their chicks. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.
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Animal Person
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
The voices of Jim Vandersluis and Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary were especially poignant, and the anguish in their faces--in their eyes--jumps off the screen as they explain how and when it hit them that the business of raising goats for milk requires surrendering the babies to be slaughtered. For all of us.
Animal Person
JUNE 22, 2009
However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. No argument here.
Animal Person
JUNE 6, 2009
So, I thought you could be interested in helping us to raise the funds. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. We have calculated that we need about 3.600 euros to finish the investigation and face its costs. And for those who wonder about their thoughts on PeTA, read this.
Animal Person
MAY 30, 2009
Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture." I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity. We live our issues.
Animal Person
AUGUST 23, 2009
The animals were still bred and raised for slaughter, but evidently in some kind of soulful way we don't really hear about. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. In " Food for the Soul ," Kristof once again yearns for the farm of his childhood which, for him, had "soul." I'm on my way.
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