Comments due by 11:59pm Sunday, November 3, 2013.
In this post I want to direct your attention to some recent and relevant articles in the popular media (in addition to one a few years old now) as well as a webpage hosted by the the Animal Legal Defense Fund.
This article was just published by The Washington Post on Tuesday, October 29th. It is entitled "USDA plan to speed up poultry-processing lines could increase risk of bird abuse." (Note that it is a 3-page article. Be sure to click on pages 2 and 3 when reading the article.)
Here's a graphic that accompanies that WP article. It is entitled "For birds on the slaughter line, two ways to die."
Speaking of being boiled alive, here's a report that came out in The Huffington Post this past August 8th. The report is entitled "Lobsters, Crabs Feel Pain, Don't Just Respond to Stimulus: Research."
Back to birds: This report from a few years ago identifies a different way millions of baby chicks die.
Finally, here's that page from the Animal Legal Defense Fund entitled "Animal Testing and the Law".
Read all of these brief articles carefully. What strikes you in each? What implications (if any) does any of this have for our common social practices? Be sure to interact with each other as you think together about these relevant and practical moral issues.
P.S. Here's a reason to ban hunting! (This was reported on Friday, October 25th.)
