"It's a disfiguring, inhumane and misguided procedure," Eileen Jefferson, a New York veterinarian who does not perform the procedure, told The Associated Press. .
And last week, Agriculture Department officials said the agency would once again consider putting cameras in several hundred of the nation's slaughterhouses to watch out for inhumane handling and poor procedures.
They argue that the procedure is "painful, inhumane, degrading, and a violation of medical ethics" for the prisoners and that "night-time only force-feeding seems problematic at best and possibly even dangerous to the detainees health".
The herding procedures themselves are inhumane and may include forced submersion as the dolphins are dragged by their tails to shore to be killed.
Now China is answering complaints by rights activists that the disappearances of those and other Chinese are unlawful and potentially inhumane: It is rewriting the national criminal procedure code to make them legal.
Critics of the debarking procedure say it is outdated and inhumane, one that destroys an animal's central means of communication merely for the owner's convenience.
Similar claims by the scientific community in 19th-century England were used to support cruel procedures like vivisection on dogs, and other inhumane experiments continue to be conducted on nonhuman animals with the purpose of expanding knowledge about the human body and illness.
PETA officials contend that the Bion flight and the surgical procedures necessary to outfit the monkeys are inhumane, although an outside panel selected by NASA concluded earlier this year that the mission is humane and will provide valuable scientific data.
Performing this procedure without pain relief of some sort is not only inhumane and extremely painful to the calf, but it can get you into legal trouble, depending on where you are located.
But the military insisted that there were "clear procedures governing interrogation to ensure approaches do not amount to inhumane treatment".
