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Wed Mar 5, 2014, 10:15 AM Mar 2014

Business-as-Usual = Animal Abuse | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Feb. 25, 2014

"Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse."

—African proverb

There are many ways to deal with atrocity, e.g: expose it, condemn it, defend it, justify it, smash it, to name a few. Perhaps the simplest and most common of all is to hide it. Just ask the global animal agriculture industry.

As Will Potter explains, so-called “Ag-gag” bills are being introduced “around the country in an attempt to censor whistleblowers, investigators, and journalists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and slaughterhouses.”

But what I'm wondering is exactly how one might go about discerning "animal welfare abuses" within any industry that -- by definition -- utilizes barbaric practices like veal crates, battery cages, castration, de-beaking, and mass slaughter as policy.

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