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

JUNE 23, 2010

Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. If you kill animals or pay someone to do so for you, you support animal cruelty. Contestant: "And turkeys.". I think you actually support animal cruelty."

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

At issue was whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed, and sold for human consumption preempted -- or nullified -- California Penal Code 599f. The FMIA expressly preempts such a state law.".

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Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up). Felicia Horton inquires/protests: "If they're cutting up [animals], are you going to want to come up front an eat some meat?"

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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. We all know junk-food vegans and vegans who eat "faux meat" products every day.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? I certainly didn't.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! The interview is scheduled for 10-15 minutes of Monday's one-hour show.

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. However, Jewish and Islamic groups which can prove animals do not suffer more during ritual killing than in an ordinary slaughterhouse will be able to apply for permits.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. So why the hell do you continue to participate in the killing of chickens for food, yet cockfighting is no longer on your list?”

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Next, to today's New York Times and Gary Steiner 's fantastic Op-ed called " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,"which begins with: "LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised." (Try Try not to think about the "meat" being "raised" and the "it."

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Animal Equality

APRIL 16, 2025

Shoved her toward the kill floor. She walked in pregnant. But she never walked out. The cow moved slowly—belly full, lungs straining. Workers shouted. They stunned her. Slit her throat. Hoisted her by her hind legs. Her body swung, limp. Then—a twitch. A tiny calf, still curled in her womb, kicked. A worker sliced her open.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

But I have to think about which words I focus on, and whether they're going to help me in my quest to get more people to stop killing nonhuman animals/having them killed when they don't need to. I could debate about language all day, with vegans and non-vegans.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

The reasons are many–habitat destruction, over-exploitation of frogs for meat, pollution, alien predators, climate change, and the chytrid fungus epidemic, a recently discovered threat that is killing frogs all over the world and which is not totally understood yet. Thrity-seven species are probably already extinct.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Here’s another self-interested reason to not eat meat: Drug-resistant bacteria are routinely found in beef, chicken, and pork sold in supermarkets. To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you don't have to enslave, rape, dominate, or kill someone (or have someone else do it for you), why would you? But my initial reaction is that this is like Americans giving up "red meat." It's not difficult once you get the hang of it--it's just different at first. Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2011

Hal Herzog writes about how many people who say they are vegetarians will also say they ate meat within the last 24 hours. The unnecessary killing of a terrified animal who was likely fighting for his life, becomes he lined up to be slaughtered so you may dine on his flesh. You say a prayer and Poof! Oooo, pick me, pick me!

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Critter News

JUNE 14, 2011

He visits Arizona's Road Kill Cafe, where the menu features not-so-exotic fare. And he meets people who consume things you would not find on the menu even at the Road Kill, like frog smoothies and tarantulas -- the former because it supposedly increases virility and the latter for medicinal purposes.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. As the world’s largest living bird, the Ostrich is the topic of many weird and wonderful scientific papers. Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. Medicinal and commercial uses of ostrich products in Tanzania.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2016

Addendum: The argument seems to be as follows: It is inconsistent both (a) to eat meat and (b) to condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; I condemn (or mourn) the killing of Harambe; therefore, I may no longer eat meat. Good leftist that he is, Peter Singer doesn't let a crisis go to waste.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. A more accurate name for the end result would therefore be “clean meat.”

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

For example, we will not claim that Martin is opposed to moral vegetarianism because he likes to eat meat without a guilty conscience. Indeed, two well-known moral and social philosophers, Robert Nozick and Peter Singer, have recently advocated not eating meat on moral grounds. KBJ: There are different reasons to abstain from meat.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 28, 2007

I can't help but think that, by improving the lives of the animals who are killed to satisfy human gustatory preferences, we are entrenching the idea that animals exist for human use. All we are doing by improving the lives of farmed animals is allowing people to eat meat with a better conscience. How can that be progress?

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Hooked on Meat ,” by Mark Bittman (column, June 2): The other day, I asked the manager of our local chain grocery store why we were offered only Peruvian asparagus in the springtime. Why do we eat so much meat? Doesn’t it know that our American diet is killing us and our economy? We’re busy and misinformed.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The Argument from Brutalization The previous argument was based on an alleged indirect effect on human beings of not eating meat. It is argued that the killing and eating of meat indirectly tends to brutalize people. People who do not eat meat tend to be less cruel and inhumane to persons than people who do eat meat.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

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, 2010

Either the vegetarian argues on utilitarian premises, or he tries to supplement or replace his utilitarianism with some plausible non-utilitarian principles implying the wrongfulness of rearing and killing animals for food. Devine seems to think that if humans cease eating meat, they will derive no pleasure from eating.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. In addition, producing more meat worsens worldwide hunger and food insecurity by dedicating precious farmland and water resources to the production of animal feed. JILLIAN PARRY FRY Baltimore, Feb.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? Is love to diminish inversely as the square of the distance? Is it to extend, in some degree, to the interests of individuals belonging to other species than [our] own? One thinks also of unborn generations.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason. Until we boycott meat, and all other products of animal factories, we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all of the cruel practices used in rearing animals for food.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. In all European Union countries to the north and east of Serbia (except Romania), Turtle Doves are strictly protected.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Solid food would have killed him, as he’d have used up the last of his fading energy trying to digest it. Meanwhile, he slowly graduated from liquids to defrosted mice: first just organ meat, then skinned and deboned, then just skinned, then the whole mouse. “Oh, THEN we’ll kick him out. I forgot I had a squirrel in here!”

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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. Controlled-atmosphere killing is a U.S.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. The illegal bird trade kills thousands of birds each year just in the manner they are smuggled. Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs.

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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. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. The eventual kill is quick, clean, and painless. Here is my opinion. They are no good to you alive.

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