Re: [Pen-l] Help Baby Seals Who Are Killed in Canada

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

ravi wrote:
> I don't know... I don't find hen (referred to as "chicken" in American  English?) particularly cute. A lot of PETA actions protest their torture. Now they may use chicks to symbolise the hens, because indeed chicken are cute, but again that's tactical.<

The plural for the animals is "hens" or "chickens." The meat is called
"chicken."

I think that PETA is missing the boat here. The problem with raising
chickens is that nowadays they follow the industrial model, which
involves not only crowding the birds together in cramped and fetid
conditions and shooting them up with hormones but also is not good for
the consumers (us carnivores).
...

Singer:
> "Whether or not the occasional experiment on animals is defensible, I remain opposed to the institutional practice of using animals in research, because, despite some improvements over the past thirty years, that practice still fails to give equal consideration to the interests of animals.  For that  reason I oppose putting more resources into building new facilities for animal experimentation.  Instead, these funds should go into clinical research involving consenting patients, and into developing other methods of research that do not involve the harmful use of animals."<

I haven't noticed the beasts giving equal consideration to  _our_
interests. Also, what about experiments that involve plants, who also
do not consent to being experimented on?
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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