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Dear Colleagues: Sometimes one does not know where to begin. This is one such time. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has apparently filed a class action suit against Perdue Farms: The Humane Society of the United States announced the filing of a class action lawsuit against the nation’s third-largest poultry producer, Perdue […]
Dear Colleagues: If you question whether animal welfare reform is in the interests of industry, look no further than the October 21, 2010 article in the New York Times about controlled-atmosphere stunning of poultry, which, as I discussed in an essay here in 2008, is promoted by PETA and PETA award-winning slaughterhouse designer, Temple Grandin. […]
Gary L. Francione and Robert Garner Columbia University Press, 2010 Purchase: DealOz Books | Columbia University Press Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for […]
Dear Colleagues: Imagine you want to find a single-issue campaign that will allow you to fundraise endlessly, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so that you (and, more important, your donors) can “help the animals.” Imagine that this campaign will not require anyone to change their behavior toward animals. They can continue to […]
Dear Colleagues: In the wake of a controversy in Britain over the sale of halal meat, which involves exsanguination rather than stunning, and the comment by British new welfarist organization Viva! that, “Consumers can do their bit by boycotting places that persist in selling meat from unstunned animals,” I wrote two essays. In the first […]
Dear Colleagues: In a recent article, Peter Singer argues: We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely – or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them. An alternative? How about vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and grains? As I have argued here and […]
Today marks the beginning of a new and important campaign for the animals. No Factory-Farmed Small Fish Friday The goal of the campaign is to encourage people not to eat factory-farmed small fish on Friday and, instead, to consume other animal products, in order to raise public awareness about the plight of factory-farmed small fish. […]
Dear Colleagues: In an article in Time Magazine, PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk discusses “flexitarianism,” or “[p]art-time vegetarianism.” The goal for many activists is simply to get more people to eat less meat. “Absolute purists should be living in a cave,” says Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). “Anybody who […]
Dear Colleagues: In his Report from the Seal Slaughter: Special Chance to Help, HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle writes: It’s a day I dread each year: the first blow or bullet landed against a baby seal off Canada’s East Coast. It marks the beginning of the world’s largest, intentional slaughter of marine mammals.” The HSUS solution? […]
Dear Colleagues: In my previous blog post, Partners in Exploitation, I discussed the various labeling schemes endorsed and promoted by HSUS, PETA, and other animal welfare corporations. Well low and behold, yesterday, I went to the local Whole Foods Market, you know, the one to which PETA gave the Best Animal-Friendly Retailer award, and I […]
Number of animals killed in the world by the meat, dairy and egg industries, since you opened this webpage. This does not include the billions of fish and other aquatic animals killed annually.
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