Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane".

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. The bill must be passed by the House and Senate before it can become law. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. It was approved and recommended to the House of Representatives by the House Judiciary Committee on September 23.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I recall one day when his sister-in-law was speaking with him about what she was feeding her children, and it wasn't a vegan-centered conversation. Sister-in-law doesn't disagree with what TD says about hot dogs, but says: "Everything in moderation." Slaughter in moderation. Sometimes permanently. I think it was about hot dogs.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Laws remain grossly inadequate as do practices at our nation’s slaughterhouses,” says Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur. Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. Most animals in the U.S.

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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. Some key words are in English at the website, which gives clear instructions for streaming. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Under Canadian laws, one shot is supposed to render the horse unconscious but it often doesn't happen. The footage was shot with a hidden camera inside Les Viandes de la Petite Nation near Montebello. It shows a parade of horses being stunned with what's called a captive bolt pistol. Captured on video, is one horse being stunned 11 times.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 21, 2008

Hitherto I had stuck to my resolution of not eating animal food, and on this occasion consider'd, with my master Tryon, the taking every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder, since none of them had, or ever could do us any injury that might justify the slaughter. All this seemed very reasonable.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. They would be made up of people who are sick and tired of government-protected species being slaughtered by domestic cats. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins. You can read all about the results in the article. What an utterly grotesque project.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

As the economy continues to falter, law enforcement officers in Kentucky and throughout the country are seeing major increases in the number of unwanted and neglected horses, some abandoned on public land, others left to starve by their owners.". Let's deconstruct: The facts of the case: "Emaciated horses eating bark off trees.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

Look no further than Reckitt Benckiser’s website: “The Company strives to act in accordance with the laws … of the countries in which it operates, (and it) operates with integrity.”. Need an example of “hypocrisy?” What to do? They pass around the website of Safe Rodent Control , which gives alternatives to poisons.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law? Can a 17-year-old who mercilessly slaughters helpless creatures – and then brags about it both in person and on social media – suddenly see the light when he reaches the magic age of 18? The innocent birds and the decent, law-abiding people who cared for them.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Still, with regard to human victims, the law doesn't accept the victimizer's enculturation as justification. law is even more speciesist than the U.S. Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal.

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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. On May 24, Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the bill into law.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

As an Illinois state senator, he backed at least a dozen animal protection laws, including those to strengthen the penalties for animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering, and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.

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AnimalEquality.net

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This facility–owned by a company called Belli–slaughters thousands of pigs each year. Investigators captured footage of widespread violence against animals, much of it in violation of Italian animal protection laws. Veterinarian Enrico Moriconi, who reviewed the footage… Source

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). Treaties trump state laws. It has become the cornerstone of U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory.

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