No, everything we were seeing, hearing and reading, everything we knew intuitively and in our bones, proclaimed that animals were souls, that they were partners with us in this world. As this understanding began to permeate the mainstream itself in which we lived, the impala head ceased being a cool conversation piece and became a symbol of something cruel and retrograde.
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Earlier this month, John Clifford, the Chief Veterinary Officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said something many people might not like.
At a hearing organized to discuss the impact of the avian flu, which has affected nearly 50 million birds in the United States, he suggested that farmers could have killed infected chickens and turkeys more efficiently by shutting off ventilation systems at poultry barns. “It’s the fastest way and probably the most humane way to take care of this,” Clifford said during the hearing, which was held on July 7.