Hunters Slaughtered Suffering 
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 24, 2007
14): To the animals being slaughtered, it does not matter whether their killers are local or whether they will be eaten or displayed on a wall. Their suffering is the same. It’s time to stop pandering to hunters and the gun lobby and turn to humane measures to control the deer population and outlaw this barbaric pastime.
Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2010
Hunters kill members of endangered species. 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). To be consistent (and nonspeciesist).
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Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder.
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 23, 2006
He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace.
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