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Supreme Court's "crush film" decision raises meat-eating issues.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Is meat-eating possible without cruelty to animals? Certainly, meat is no treat for those you eat.  How unaware to the cruelty of their own meat eating were meat eaters who passed the federal ban on "animal cruelty" videos that the Supreme Court struck down yesterday, on 4/20 no less? U.S. v. Stevens, __ U.S. _ (April 20, 2010).  Certainly, the Supreme Court reached the right result in Stevens, and addressed broader First Amendment issues in the process, including overbreadth and limits on creating new categories of expression that are deprived of First Amendment protection.  I wish for Stevens to be an opportunity not only to celebrate and strengthen the First Amendment, but also for people to re-examine their relationship with and treatment of all animals, both of different species and their own species...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).