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Default Animal welfare, not animal "rights"

PinBoard wrote:
> Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> Cruelty charges filed against slaughterhouse boss
>>
>> A video taken at the Chino facility prompted schools nationwide to
>> pull beef from their menus.
>>
>> By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
>> 2:32 PM PST, February 15, 2008
>>
>> San Bernardino County prosecutors today filed felony charges against a
>> former Chino slaughterhouse manager who allegedly used cruel methods
>> to force at-risk cattle into the slaughter box. A videotape taken at
>> the facility has led to schools nationwide pulling beef from cafeterias.
>>
>> In what prosecutors called unprecedented charges, 49-year-old Daniel
>> Ugarte Navarro of Pomona faces up to eight years and eight months in
>> prison if convicted of five felony counts of animal cruelty and three
>> misdemeanor counts of illegal movement of a non-ambulatory animal.
>> Navarro, who was a head pen manager at Hallmark Meat Packing, was
>> fired last month after the release of the video by the Humane Society
>> of the United States.
>>
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>>
>>
>> These charges have been brought not because animals have rights - they
>> do not; they *cannot* - but because right-thinking people care about
>> animal welfare, and don't want animals to be abused.

>
> Perhaps breeding animals and processing them for food is abuse.


No; not to any right-thinking person.