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...Iraq's muslims need to study Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to learn about the folly of using differences to divide people. All Muslims should forget about succession from Muhammad and simply be good Muslims. And good Muslims don't slaughter one another. When people aren't taught to respect other teachings, religions, cultures and civilizations, they aren't inclined to respect the sanctity of life - not even their own. Zell Goodbaum, TORONTO...
...that article too. Within my repertoire in the New York City Ballet, there is a big tap number from “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.” We run the gamut with different choreographers who aren’t necessarily what you would think of as traditional ballet choreographers...
...course, the individual bison we eat lose, but the nature of the paradox is that most never would have a chance at life at all if we didn't provide a reason for their husbandry. Vegetarians may argue that no life is better than one cut short at slaughter, but in terms of maximizing their genetic expression, Bison bison would have to disagree...
Bison, on the other hand, eat grass that grows freely, and the manure they produce is a natural fertilizer. True, some bison ranchers are irresponsibly corralling and then "finishing" their animals with a fattier diet of grain just before slaughter. This makes the meat richer, more like beef. Ted's Montana Grill serves grain-finished bison, for instance, although CEO George McKerrow Jr. says the chain is testing grass-finished meat for consistency and quality...
...best thing we can do to let bison be bison is to end their lives in the wild, not in captivity. Today, John and Wright Mooar, the prodigious bison hunting brothers who helped lead the "Great Slaughter" in the late 1800s, are reviled for shooting so many bison on the open range. But, ironically, theirs was a more humane way of killing bison than ours. Last summer, I watched a bison heifer be led into the chute at the North American Bison Cooperative, a slaughterhouse in New Rockford, N.D. She became agitated, and she fought violently against the tight steel...