Word: sentient
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...lead before their deaths. Most farm animals today never feel sunlight, fresh air, or grass beneath their feet. Confined in narrow veal crates, gestation crates, and battery cages, millions of calves, pigs, and hens cannot even turn around or extend their limbs. And they live like this—sentient creatures capable of feeling pain and pleasure—for their entire wretched lives...
...might think that, in such circumstances, the birds’ senders would seek to mitigate harms. Instead, Bird Shippers of America, the industry group, employs a lobbyist in Washington to push for the repeal of the few restrictions that still exist on this trade in sentient beings...
...right to regulate interstate commerce to stop the inhumane transport of animals. Students can avoid buying live chickens, or perhaps even the eggs they produce, this Easter. And the U.S. Postal Service should end the live chicken trade—a postal box is no place for a sentient being...
...This is not a business model that makes sense. Perhaps it appeared to when Web advertising was booming and every half-sentient publisher could pretend to be among the clan who "got it" by chanting the mantra that the ad-supported Web was "the future." But when Web advertising declined in the fourth quarter of 2008, free felt like the future of journalism only in the sense that a steep cliff is the future for a herd of lemmings. (See who got the world into this financial mess...
...pushed into painful shows in circuses and rodeos, and mutilated in laboratories. And when disasters strike, property is simply left behind—witness the thousands of pigs who drowned in their crates when floods hit Iowa this summer, and the farmers who subsequently collected insurance payouts on their sentient losses...