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Animal Rights, Veganasim, Protesting Slaughter Houses.
Animal rights is the idea that some, or all,non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. Advocates oppose the assignment of moral value and fundamental protections on the basis of species membership alone—an idea known since 1970 as speciesim, when the term was coined by Richard D. Ryder arguing that it is a prejudice as irrational as any other. They maintain that animals should no longer be viewed as property or used as food, clothing, research subjects, entertainment, or beasts of burden.
Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or poultry. Vegans, in addition to being vegetarian, do not use other animal products and by-products such as eggs, dairy products, honey, leather, fur, silk, wool, cosmetics, and soaps derived from animal products.
A Petaluma slaughterhouse at the center of an international meat recall reopened under new ownership Monday to protests from animal rights activists.
About 30 demonstrators, some wearing bloody aprons and waving signs, converged on the former Rancho Feeding Corp. slaughterhouse to protest what they say is the inhumane treatment of animals at the facility.
Marin Sun Farms CEO David Evans, who assembled a group of investors to purchase the meat plant, is focused on ethically raising and processing meat, spokesman Jeff Bordes said.
"The humane treatment of animals is in line with the principles of this company," Bordes said.But protesters worried it would be business as usual at the slaughterhouse, despite the change in ownership.
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