Animal-Use Industries Rolodex
July 28, 2007
The Final Nail. Fifty states-worth. Get it while it’s red hot. Laboratory animal dealers, fur “farmers,” trappers, slaughterhouses, and animal carcass processors. Federally-inspected joints only. Maybe it’ll help clear up some of the local incredulity every time a bloody lamb or baby goat is found staggering around the old, urban (213). Hat tip: GITNR.
Pop Quiz!
February 7, 2007
That’s 140,000,000 if you’re scoring at home in the US.
You so have to take this little test. It moos at you when you get one wrong. Holy lagoon spill! You can look up who’s funding the funders for peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles.
Did you recognize me?
May 9, 2006
In “Just taking out the trash,” Christina Childs of the Weatherford Democrat recounts her visit to a sale barn, the colloquial, hometown cousin of the livestock auction wherein the hooved elderly, ill, injured, and unwanted find a layover before the knockdown. “Taking an animal to a sale barn,” she writes, “is a way to pass the buck of owner responsibility. Instead of leaving your animal in the hotel of horrors only to go to slaughter, take it there yourself — have that compassion at least.”
Compassion assumes a recognition and acknowledgment of intrinsic value, beyond that which is self-serving or tasty. Compassion dictates a quick and painless end to suffering. Theirs, not yours. Delivering your still-breathing burden to the ramp of death’s door, on the other hand, just requires a seller’s number and a peculiar brand of follow-through.
“No animal, no matter its intended use, should be made to suffer the horrendous injustices I witnessed, and I believe it is fair to say they are not the first, nor will they be the last.”
For the most part she’s right. But you can still prove her wrong on one count. Say, “Enough!” and mean it.
El Gran Paro Americano 2006
April 28, 2006
Get active and multi-task for people and the planet on 1 de Mayo 2006. No compre. Put away your McNugget money today.
No consuma. One more reason? “They Die Piece by Piece,” (registration required) from Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick. A printable PDF of this article is available from the Humane Farming Association.
No mate. Put down your knives. “Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in the U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants,” from Human Rights Watch.
