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Help. My feelings towards animals

Reddit Animals

Hello, my whole life I have had dogs, cats, goats, and sheep, and I am a very big animal lover however recently it’s like gone to the next level and if an Animal is hurt or homeless or dying, a slow death I FEEL SO INCREDIBLY BAD. it’s so bad. it’s so bad. How do I not let it bother me so much and just accept it’s nature and things happen.

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Group Seeks to Ban Chinese Fur Trade with Australia

Critter News

However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin. Besides raccoon dogs, other types of domestic dogs are also suffering because of the high demand for their fur. The dog's fur is used to make Ugg boots, a popular fashion brand in Australia, to line the inside of the shoe.

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EU Backing Cloned Animal Products

Critter News

If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. Clones themselves can suffer a range of painful conditions, including malformed organs and gigantism. Many die in the womb or soon after birth.

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Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

10,000 Birds

Due to mass wolf poisonings in the 1960s and the 1970s, Griffon Vultures in Serbia suffered a dramatic population crash. There are very few sheep in the meadows and too few animals end up dead in the open, where scavengers can get them. No, they weren’t in raspberry fields.).

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. I wouldn't do it to a dog, and I shouldn't do it to a chicken/sheep/cow/pig. There is no question about the motive here: seduce the sheep into believing you care so that they are easier to deal with and easier to lead to slaughter. It's cruel. No argument here.

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On Honoring Living "Things"

Animal Person

To kill Violet Rays so I may eat her (or for any other reason other than to relieve her suffering) would be a betrayal, not to mention unnecessary. The same is true for cows, pigs, fishes, turkeys, chickens, buffaloes, sheeps, goats, and many other nonhuman animals whom we call "food." This is indeed a matter of conscience.

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J. Baird Callicott on Domesticity

Animal Ethics

From the perspective of the land ethic a herd of cattle, sheep, or pigs is as much or more a ruinous blight on the landscape as a fleet of four-wheel drive off-road vehicles. But this is not true of cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens. They want to abolish the institution of confinement, which inflicts horrible suffering on animals.