Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Horses slaughtered in America today go not to feed the poor and the hungry but to satisfy the esoteric palates of wealthy diners in Europe and Japan. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens. John Hettinger Pawling, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

18): As a microbiologist, I know that study after study has highlighted the human health threat from using antibiotics as feed additives for hogs, chickens and cattle, creating super-bugs—bacteria that no longer can be treated with antibiotics. Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

April 21, 2008 To the Editor: Re “ Million-Dollar Meat ” (editorial, April 23): In vitro meat might not appeal to everyone, but I am guessing that the day PETA awards its prize money will be a happy day for the billions of land animals bound for slaughter. More than nine billion chickens are slaughtered each year in the United States.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The land ethic, in sum, is as much opposed, though on different grounds, to commercial traffic in wildlife, zoos, the slaughter of whales and other marine mammals, etc., dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and chickens); cell 4 (the southeast quadrant) contains domesticated plants. as is the humane ethic.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? And how much land would be required to contain ranches like the one owned by Ms. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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AnimalEquality.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A new report by Animal Equality—titled Uncounted—examines the chicken mortality rate on U.S. By analyzing data reported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2021, Animal Equality breaks down the death rates of chickens raised for meat at all stages of life—from hatchery to transportation trucks.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

In other words, horses, like pigs and cows and chickens, are commodities whose worth has a dollar value to people, and we should be doing what we can do maximize that dollar value. Not approving the institutionalized slaughter of the horses we claim to hold so dear lowers that value. Where did all the fanfare around horses go?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I realize that the most humane method of treating chickens is to not kill them for food.BUT, as long as there is still a demand for their meat, PETA is advocating "Controlled-Atmosphere Killing" as an improvement over current methods of electric immobilization. Tags: meat PETA farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Farmers were bragging about how much they "loved" the animals they would soon betray and slaughter, and many omnivores who had discovered how animals are treated wanted to assuage their consciences a bit by "at least" giving the animals a better life prior to their untimely slaughter. He had indeed just murdered a chicken.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

The students learn to debone a chicken and slice cheese. I wonder how much the students learn about the chicken and where the carcass came from and what happens during the life of a chicken. The site says food production factories are included , but I doubt that means those involving the slaughter of animals.).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

And I want Baby Sky to grow up in a home where there is just as much respect for chickens and calves and fishes as there is for greyhounds and cats and people. I choose to opt out of traditions that cause harm and are the direct result of the exploitation and commodification of beings just like Charles , but who look a little different.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. They are created to be slaughtered. The choice isn't the wild or the farm. Yes, that's true.

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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. Food for my soul does not involve grilled greyhound any more than it involves grilled chicken. In " Food for the Soul ," Kristof once again yearns for the farm of his childhood which, for him, had "soul."

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

Yes, I do think it's better to have lived a comfortable life and then be slaughtered than to have been tortured the entire time and then be slaughtered. I wouldn't do it to a dog, and I shouldn't do it to a chicken/sheep/cow/pig. It's just not right. Betrayal , according to the Oxford English Dictionary: 1.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. 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. Andrew from Good Honest Dollar had an excellent question.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ New Way to Help Chickens Cross to Other Side ” (front page, Oct. 22): PETA is proud to see that its hard work behind the scenes with Bell & Evans and other companies to encourage implementation of this new, less cruel form of slaughter is finally coming to fruition. McDonald’s, are you listening?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. It flies on. photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Not when we have but 400 to spare.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. Chickens enjoy being together in small flocks, sunning, dust bathing and scratching in the soil for food. 13, 2007

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

After two or three laying cycles when their egg production begins to wane, the layer hens are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and sent to slaughter, where they are processed into chicken soup and pet food. Eggs and dairy products also contribute to all the environmental problems listed above.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already. We pay lip service to more humane treatment of the animals that we eat, but how many of us look beyond the label on the package of chicken cutlets?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And as the slaughtering of animals is not high tech, certainly no trade secrets would be at risk with the imposition of cameras. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. 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.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

All we do as vegans is take a reality--the reality of the sentience of cats, dogs, horses, chickens, sheep, cows, etc. He is letting his attachment to eating animals and his attachment to his constituents profiting from their slaughter cloud his decision making. What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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