Animal Ethics

JULY 17, 2007

citizens have been struggling to bring an end to the inhumane practice of slaughtering horses for human consumption. For previous posts on the ethical issues surrounding the slaughtering of horses for human consumption, see here , here , and here. For several years, conscientious U.S. Happily, that struggle is finally over.

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

Clearly, it is disturbing enough to provoke some real discussions about the ethics of dolphins in amusement parks. The affecting cloak-and-dagger documentary “The Cove,” which documents a brutal dolphin hunt off the Japanese town of Taiji, is putting would-be amusement park visitors in an ethical bind and park owners on the defensive.

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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.

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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. Tags: Ethics Language. The choice isn't the wild or the farm.

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Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

I don't agree that the game is "no different than a lobster tank" (at least conceptually--I haven't seen it), but "animal rights activists" should be campaigning for the cessation of the slaughter and consumption of lobsters, shouldn't they? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. What do you think of this campaign?

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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. That's respect. Photo from Flickr user gunp0wder.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

Here's today's question: When a group of omnivores begins the inevitable round of jokes about veganism and even about slaughter ("I love turkeys--with sweet potatoes," or my cousin this week on Facebook, "I love the cow, therefore I eat her cheese," or something equally insensitive and ignorant), what do you do? Not humans, not animals."

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? So we went from a ban to a vague statement about the prevention of abuse that clearly doesn't consider slaughter abusive. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink. We can care about animals and people at the same time; they're not mutually exclusive.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

But though the pigs weren't originally destined for a mass grave, weren't they destined for slaughter nonetheless? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. The pigs are being buried alive, dumped in mass graves and "covered in what appears to be quicklime where, they endure a slow and agonising death." Yes, I sent the protest.

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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. 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.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

Cain=farmer=evil murderer; Abel=slaughtered animals=victim/good son. If you're going to claim that it was good for Native Americans so it's good for us, please know that they had an ecological ethic that we simply don't share. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film. Cain was a farmer, Abel was a herder. Net message?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2008

More barbarous, or less barbarous, such slaughtering may undoubtedly be, according to the methods employed, but the "humane" slaughtering, so much bepraised of the sophist, is an impossibility in fact and a contradiction in terms. Henry S.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? Not to mention the reality that there is so much more involved in being bred for slaughter than pain, and none of that is addressed. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. This is where I'm confused. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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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. You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter.

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Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

People in South Florida are still in an uproar over the mutilation and slaughter of 19 house cats (allegedly) by 18-year old Tyler Weinman, who was declared mentally competent and not a danger to himself or others (!). We don't say we hate pigs and want to see them writhing in pain and slaughtered. We don't say we hate cows.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

(The site says food production factories are included , but I doubt that means those involving the slaughter of animals.). How about an ethical adventure ? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Removing skin and bones from a chicken breast was "slimy and gushy and. fun" said one (female) child. I don't even know where to start.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). I simply don't understand the core message of this book--that eating animals can be wrong for one person, yet that same person supports the unnecessary slaughter of animals as long as it's done in a certain way.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Slaughter in moderation. Tags: Ethics Language. really, Mary?) peeved upon hearing or reading these words. It smacks of laziness, not to mention exaggeration. . Rape in moderation. Genocide in moderation. Slavery in moderation. Terror in moderation. Injustice in moderation. Heroine in moderation. Child molestation in moderation.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. And there are ethical reasons for becoming vegetarian. Ethical synergy at work.

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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. 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." What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). Tags: Books Ethics Language. Stay tuned for Part Deux, and more sentiments I could never have crafted better.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility. Tags: Books Ethics. But the net message is the same: factory farming=bad, small farms=good. And once you are on the side of justice, it's impossible to present a rational alternative to animal farming.

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Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

We are overfishing, over-trawling, and mutilating and slaughtering bycatch by the millions of tons (17-39 million tons/year, not including marine mammals, sea bids and some invertebrates). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink animal rights Bycatch Fish Fishing industry Overfishing Seafood The End of the Line veganism.

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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? Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Like any other unnecessary killing of innocent beings, it still wouldn't be humane" (137). Chance is so close!

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

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. Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Los Angeles, Oct. McDonald’s, are you listening?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The conclusion I'm left making is that the person saying "Because it tastes good" thinks that it's funny that a sentient being was raped (in the case of cows), mutilated (chickens, pigs and others) and slaughtered (everyone) because people find them tasty. It's never been so easy to have a Just Thanksgiving.

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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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink Language. Along with the rest of the country.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

that slaughters horses for human consumption. you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S. but that leaves open the possibility of slaughtering horses for human consumption abroad. The answer is the proverbial loophole.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 5, 2009

And one of the groups demonized by the mainstream is people who think it's unethical to demonize, disrespect and slaughter animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. In America, we demonize not only certain animals, but certain people. What's wrong with this picture?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 14, 2009

To the so-called ethical, no less than to the political school of thought, the question of Vegetarianism is unwelcome, obtruding as it does on the polite wordiness of academic discussion with an issue so coarsely downright: "You are a member of an Ethical Society—do you live by butchery?"

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Some key words are in English at the website, which gives clear instructions for streaming.

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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., Here are some highlights: Mantle: "How do you respond to: Yeah, you may find something that benefits humans, but it's not worth it and it's not ethically right?"

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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).

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism. The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting !

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism. But for now, we have a book that describes how we got here and what we might do.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 4, 2010

This is a few years old, but everyone should read it.

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