Human uses of animals
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Human uses of animals include both practical uses, such as the production of food and clothing, and symbolic uses, such as in art, literature, mythology, and religion. All of these are elements of cul
Symbolic use: Still Life with Lobster and Oysters by Alexander Coosemans, c. 1660
Practical use: cattle carcass in a slaughterhouse
Traditional fishing trawler filled with sardines, India
Animal dyestuff: cochineal scale insects being collected from a prickly pear, 1777
Animal–industrial complex
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Animal–industrial complex is a concept used by activists and scholars to describe what they contend is the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals. The term was adapted from the "Mili
Pigs confined in gestation crates, which scholars such as Barbara Noske state is part of the animal–industrial complex. According to Noske, animals "have become reduced to mere appendages of computers and machines."
In the slaughterhouse, Lovis Corinth, 1893
Gavage of a mulard duck in the production of foie gras
Male chicks shortly before they will be killed