Peter Singer-Animal Liberation

Some farmers, to their credit, are troubledby this painful surgery. In an article entitled “The Castration Knife Must Go,”C.G.Sc ...

viewedfromthefrontorrear,wherethebrandwouldnotbe visible.^131 These, then, are some of the standard procedures of traditionalmet ...

leastfivehoursbeforethejourneyisresumed.Obviously,a periodoftwenty-eighttothirty-sixhoursinalurchingrailway car without food or ...

longer and more harrowing than the journey to the slaughterhouse. Thefederallawof 1906 providedthatanimalstransportedby railhadt ...

fewdaysearlier,theeffectisstillworse.Veterinaryexperts recommendthat,simplyinordertoimprovetheirprospectsof surviving, young cal ...

with broken limbs or other injuries. In 1986, USDA inspectors condemned over 7,400 cattle, 3,100calves, and 5,500pigsbecausethey ...

slaughter laws, death comes quickly and painlessly. The animalsaresupposedtobestunned byelectric currentora captive-boltpistolan ...

move from the blood-splattered slaughterhouse into the scalding pot.^134 Much of the suffering that occurs in slaughterhouses is ...

Thecounciladdedthatwhiletherewerelawsrequiringthat stunning be conducted effectively and withoutunnecessary painbyskilledpersonn ...

importantexceptionintheUnitedStatesisthattheFederal Humane Slaughter Act, passed in 1958, applies only to slaughterhousesselling ...

Whyaresuchprimitivemethods,universallycondemned as inhumane, stillin use? Thereasonis thesameasin other aspectsofanimalraising:i ...

Moreover, in the United States there are special circumstances that turn this method of slaughter into a grotesquetravestyofanyh ...

to enable the slaughterer to kill the animal with a single stroke, as the religious law prescribes. It is difficult to imagineac ...

are slaughtered without prior stunning than would be necessary to supply the demand for this type of meat. Britain’sFarmAnimalWe ...

susceptibletocancersothatitcanbeusedtoscreenpossible carcinogens. The grant followed a 1980 Supreme Court decision which made it ...

But it willbe the animals who “crashand burn,” not the researchers.TheWashingtonTimesalsoquoteddefendersof genetic engineering a ...

Chapter 4 Becoming a Vegetarian ... orhowtoproducelesssufferingandmorefoodatareduced cost to the environment Nowthatwehaveunders ...

gastronomicgrounds.Ifoneisopposedtoinflictingsuffering onanimals, but not to thepainlesskilling ofanimals, one could consistentl ...

manner. If it could be done at all, the animal flesh thus producedwouldbevastlymoreexpensivethananimalfleshis today—and rearing ...

action will never bring about a major reform. Even in supposedly animal-loving Britain, although the wide controversy stirred by ...