Animal Slaughter

Anonymous American Buys German Artists' Guillotine For $2.3 Million

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Animal Slaughter, Art Buyers, Animal Activism, Video, Art, Killing Sheep, Animal Rights, Online Lamb Vote, Die Guillotine, Art Lamb, German Art, Sheep Vote, Lamb Death, Performance Art, Culture News

An anonymous buyer from the U.S. has purchased a homemade guillotine from two German art students for $2.3 million. The guillotine was the centerpiece...

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Local Urban Farms In Hot Water Over Alleged Treatment Of Animals

| Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Slow Food, Animal Slaughter, Urban Farms Oakland, San Francisco Farms, Urban Farms, Urban Farms Sf, Urban Farms San Francisco, San Francisco Farming, Urban Farms Bay Area, Farm to Table, Urban Farming, Animal Slaughter Urban Farms, San Francisco News

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's SFoodie. By Jonathan Kauffman If you go to farmers' markets in the East Bay, you may have seen ...

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Progress? Discrimination? Or Simply a Stunning Controversy?

Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Animal Slaughter, Kosher, Halal, Netherlands, World News

Whether religious slaughter of animals is seen as humane or inhumane, discriminatory, cruel, sacred or medieval depends on the eye of the beholder.

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Calling Bull On Mark Zuckerberg's Meat Challenge

Laurel Miller | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Animal Slaughter, Killing Animals Humane, Humane Livestock Management, Livestock, Butchering, Mark Zuckerberg, Sustainable Agriculture, Eating Meat, Meat, Personal Challenge, Vegetarianism, Facebook, Food News

As one of the few remaining humans on the planet not on Facebook, I still like to give credit where it's due. I may loathe Mark Zuckerberg's time-suck...

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Ag Department Proposal Threatens Animal Welfare

Temple Grandin, Ph.D | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Usda, Animals, Animal Welfare, Animal Slaughter, Sustainable Food, Livestock, Beef, Food Politics, Humane Slaughter Act, Agriculture, Temple Grandin, Veal, Cows, Dairy, Green News

As a scientist who has dedicated her life to improving livestock welfare, I am extremely alarmed that the USDA has paid so little attention to the animal welfare implications of their Humane Slaughter Act.

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Round Up and Slaughter Wyoming's Response to Too Many Horses

Paula B. Mays | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Slaughter, Congress, Animal Cruelty, Wyoming, West Coast, Horses, Abandonment, Slaughterhouse, Green News

Is the plan to stun the horses in the head and then slaughter them humane? Many in Wyoming believe that it is not.

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Slaughter and the City

Ari Solomon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Veganism, Factory Farms, Animal Slaughter, Michael Pollan, Meat, Humane Slaughter, Slow Food Movement, Locavore, Healthy Living News

I've noticed a new trend among urbanites. It goes something like this: city types read Michael Pollan, see Food Inc., or simply get intrigued by words...

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Court Rejects Meat Industry Attempt to Thwart Regulation

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, California, Factory Farming, Westland/Hallmark Meat Co, Pigs, Factory Farms, National Meat Association, Subsidies, Pollution, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Downer Cows, Animal Slaughter, Cows, Horse Slaughter, Taxpayer Money, Agribusiness, Usda, American Meat Institute, Green News

In a third straight federal appellate court ruling against the meat industry, the Ninth Circuit ruled today that California is well within its authority to ban the sale, transport, or purchase of downer cows and pigs.

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Gadhimai Festival: Nepal Mass Animal Sacrifice Festival To Go Ahead Despite Protests

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 05.25.2011

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KATMANDU, Nepal — A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in souther...

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Killing Chickens At Home: Would You Do It? (PHOTOS)

Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Slaughter, Food, Farming, Chickens, Slideshow, Killing Your Own Chickens, Local Food, Farms, Green News

Guest post by Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing Last night, we had fourteen people over for dinner. And they wanted chicken. Good thing we h...

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Chew On This, Chipotle!

Carolynn Carreño | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carolynn Carreno, Food Inc, Chipotle, Humanely-Raised Beef, Food Politics, Animal Slaughter, Factory Farming, Organic Food, Food-Inc-Film, Impact of Eating Meat, Green News

In Southern California, Chipotle resorts to using meat from cows that must be fork-lifted to slaughter because they're too sick to even walk.

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Moving Forward for Farm Animals

Erin Williams | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Vegetarian, Factory Farming, California, Animlas, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Proposition 2, Animal Slaughter, Farm Bill, Animal Welfare, Green News, Animla Rights, Green Policy, Healthy Living News

In 2008, Americans sent an unmistakable signal to Big Agribusiness that we will not tolerate the kinds of animal cruelty that had become standard. In 2009, let's work to accomplish even more.

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Living The Teenage Life; Peer Pressure and Carnivores

Chloe Spencer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vegetarian, Green Living, Reasons to Be a Vegetarian, Go Green, Vegetarianism, Teen Peer Pressure, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Peer Pressure, Prop 2, Animal Slaughter, Slaughterhouses, Green Eating, Social Pressure, Packaged Meats, Environmental Footprint, Green News

Even though you buy your nicely plastic-wrapped meat at the grocery store, it doesn't mean that what's in that package didn't suffer to get there.

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