Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

as I was running this morning, I couldn't help wonder what the difference is between his book and The Compassionate Carnivore and the myriad others written by people who despise factory farming, yet claim to love animals (and of course love their "meat," and find a way to get it while not feeling bad about it).

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34). Ever, in fact.

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Animal Equality

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As an investigator, he’d walked blood-soaked slaughterhouses, seen animals crammed into metal boxes, and heard faint cries echoing down the slaughter line. Mike thought he’d seen it all. But nothing prepared him for that day. Newborn lambs huddled together, their tiny bodies trembling.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

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. The animals were still bred and raised for slaughter, but evidently in some kind of soulful way we don't really hear about.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Meat, however, purchased at the supermarket, externally packaged and internally laced with petrochemicals, fattened in feed lots, slaughtered impersonally, and, in general, mechanically processed from artificial insemination to microwave roaster, is an affront not only to physical metabolism and bodily health but to conscience as well.

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Animal Equality

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

horses for slaughter, was reintroduced in Congress—just ahead of National Horse Protection Day on March 1. Contact your representatives and demand that they support the SAFE Act to ban horse slaughter once and for all: The SAFE Act promises to end the… Source Ready to take action for horses?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This, however, is precisely what factory farming does. By forgoing meat in our diets, we can reduce, if not eliminate, this massive suffering of animals, merely through bringing market forces to bear upon factory farming.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here.

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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. This film provides an accurate portrayal of small-scale, non-intensive animal farming. This is as humane as "humane farming" gets.

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Animal Equality

JANUARY 7, 2025

Thousands of animals were slaughtered, their final moments captured by Animal Equality’s… Source These images are here to tell the story: At Nepal’s 2024 Gadhimai Festival—the world’s largest animal sacrifice—investigators revealed what walls, smog, and police bans tried to hide.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factory farming. 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. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

An enormous volume of material has already appeared on the conditions under which animals live and die on factory farms, and more is almost certainly on the way. What the vegetarian wants, surely, is that we should stop eating meat even if our liking for it exceeds our revulsion at the suffering endured on factory farms.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. I have visited many of the grotesque factory farms that now corrupt our rural landscapes.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? Have you looked at images or videotapes of slaughter? Perhaps the sympathetic impulse would be activated if people saw how their meat is produced. Have you taken the time to investigate this? This is bad faith.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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. 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.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

And they certainly wouldn't hurt anybody; that's what those big factory farms do that aren't owned by families. Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals. Yes, factory farms are the stuff of nightmares for nonhuman animals. But so are family farms. I don't care about scale.

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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. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.

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AnimalEquality.net

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This facility–owned by a company called Belli–slaughters thousands of pigs each year. Between 2023 and 2024, Animal Equality investigators documented conditions inside a pig slaughterhouse in Cremona, Italy. Veterinarian Enrico Moriconi, who reviewed the footage… Source

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AnimalEquality.net

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Animal Equality has released footage from the 2024 Gadhimai Festival in Southern Nepal, where thousands of animals were slaughtered in early December. As the world’s largest animal sacrifice, this event continues every five years despite widespread international outcry.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system. Methinks it is Scott who is letting his emotions get the best of him.

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