"When healthy animals, whose prospects include the possibility of lives that are worth living, are killed, then they suffer the loss of those prospects, even if they do not suffer pain or anxiety in the killing process. So, the mass killing or "slaughter" of animals for food always involves mass suffering. If the phrase "humane slaughter" is supposed to indicate a killing process without suffering, it is a false label."
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Academics from the United StatesPhilosophers from the United StatesPeople from New York CityAnimal rights activistsYale University alumni
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"Morals, Reason and Animals: Steve Sapontzis Interviewed by Claudette Vaughan", Abolitionist Online (2009)
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