Don’t Cancel Your Cable Yet
March 4, 2009
We know times are hard unless you were skeevy enough to have Madoff with a shit-ton of loot last year. Pay thru March, Tor(rent) up, or just boot off the neighbors for a few days. You must. not. miss. the HBO premiere of Death on a Factory Farm on March 16.
March 16, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I watched the show on HBO and I am just in shock to think that the Wiles got off for Animal Cruelty with the hanging. To me it is common sense to know that is cruel. Is it cruel to hang a dog? Yes! So how is it different from a hog and/or piglet ?
I just can’t get over how the citizens of that town think it is the norm to hang and torture animals. I am so relieved there is someone that will go under cover to stop cruelty to animals!!!
March 16, 2009 at 11:39 pm
we watched the show today and it saddens me to know how the animals were treated at the wiles farm. i blame us humans that consume these animals, and made it legal to kill them like… they were meant to be killed. we’re the biggest sinners, it’s a mistake that we humans even exist in this world. i’m ashamed of myself. i can’t sleep tonight.
March 17, 2009 at 3:08 am
The judge believes he followed the laws in place, and in the film it is stated by an intern that the change needs to take place at the legislative level. If not living in the state of Ohio (to contact state reps there), we all must contact federal legislators and urge them to do more than specify the “options” and “guidelines” so vaguely referred to in this judgement.
March 18, 2009 at 7:17 pm
That’s a crucial observation, SH, and a critical distinction regarding the application of existing law. In fact, it’s a question Judge Miller himself asked of the prosecution during closing arguments: “Why would ending life as quickly and painlessly as possible during slaughtering be different from euthanasia? Why would [that] be different standards?” We believe he saw no moral or ethical difference between those situations and we hope we’re not wrong on that point.
But to this day, there is no state or federal law that governs acceptable methods for providing a quick and painless death to farm animals who are not slaughter-bound. Despite the testimony of Dr. Armbrecht, the defense-supplied “expert,” euthanasia is not merely “a procedure to cause an animal to die,” and the options and guidelines remain what they are and always have been: suggestions from industry trade organizations such as the AASV and the NPPC, with no legally enforceable provisions and negligible consequences for their disregard.
May 26, 2010 at 12:56 pm
But to this day, there is no state or federal law that governs acceptable methods for providing a quick and painless death to farm animals who are not slaughter-bound. Despite the testimony of Dr. Armbrecht, the defense-supplied “expert,” euthanasia is not merely “a procedure to cause an animal to die,” and the options and guidelines remain what they are and always have been: suggestions from industry trade organizations such as the AASV and the NPPC, with no legally enforceable provisions and negligible consequences for their disregard.
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