Humane Label Turkey Slaughter In the U.S. and elsewhere, turkeys, chickens and other birds are intentionally excluded from so-called humane slaughter laws, which otherwise require that farmed animals be “stunned”— rendered insensible to pain— before their throats are slit. This … Continue reading
Any time consumers of meat, eggs or dairy advocate for “humane” treatment of farm animals, they confront an unavoidable paradox: the movement to treat farm animals better is based on the idea that it is wrong to subject them to unnecessary harm; yet, killing animals we have no need to eat constitutes the ultimate act of unnecessary harm.
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