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Article: What's good for the goose ... the Israeli Supreme Court, foie gras, and the future of farmed animals in the United States.
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- Law and Contemporary Problems
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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INTRODUCTION
The cruelties visited upon animals in modern agriculture are indisputable and truly staggering in their proportions. Approximately ten billion animals, excluding fish, are killed annually in the United States for food. These animals are regularly confined for life to very small areas--some no bigger than themselves--virtually unable to move a muscle, are mutilated and castrated without anesthesia, are handled and slaughtered in inhumane ways, and are genetically engineered to increase production in ways that cause them to be ill and malformed. This mistreatment goes on, day after day, animal by animal, endlessly. At the same time, laws ...