ANIMALS"Do cattle and other animals know they are walking up a chute that will lead to their death?" Many people ask this question, which the author first had to answer when starting work in the cattle industry. From observations at slaughter plants, feedlots, and ...
is a UNESCO World Heritage site, internationally famous for its elephants and its boundless ocean of green. But when I ask a gathering of children and elders in the village of Kpaika, about 30 miles from the park’s western border, how many of them have visited Garamba, no ...
Antibiotic resistance is of great public health concernbecause the antibiotic-resistant bacteria associated with the animals may be pathogenic to humans, easily transmitted to humans via food chains, and widely disseminated in the environment via animal wastes. These may cause complicated, untreatable, a...
Slaughterhouses “process” many animals a day, so its operation is similar to an assembly line. Cows and pigs, animals of great weight, are lifted from the floor by their rear legs, causing them tears and breaks. After that, they areslaughtered by the killers, their trembling bodies can ...
A slaughtered whale's baleen is on display aboard a whaling vessel. M. Votier/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Although their large size deters many predators, baleen whales still face the threat of killer whales. Killer whales may team up to take on a large baleen whale. Large sharks also ...
There isn’t a way of producing or farming cashmere that doesn’t affect the animals, humans, and environment in some way. For this reason, many fashion companies have boycotted cashmere from China and certain parts of Mongolia to promote ethical practices. ...
After two years of caring for meat chickens and falling in love with the birds only for them to be slaughtered, I decided to buy my own chickens. At 11 years old, I started my first of many entrepreneurial ventures to save money for my own flock of layer breeds. Pretty soon, I proudl...
Moreover, we have developed truly horrific standardized practices for the treatment of animals in quantities that the Stoics could not have imagined. Just to give you an idea, these are the USDA statistics of slaughtered animals for the year 2008, obviously limited to the USA only: Cattle: 35...
The current and SSD 100% scenarios aimed to answer RQ 1 (How many animals would be necessary to satisfy the demand for regional animal products (meat, dairy and eggs) in the context of current consumption patterns?) and RQ 2 (Can local land feed the currently kept livestock and the number...
Yet, though animals are a more humane substitute for reenactments of founding murders, many cultures persisted with human victims, Aztecs obviously, and the child sacrifices to Baal, Molech, and Ishtar in Middle Eastern pagan cultures, such as the Carthaginian practice of strangling child offerings...