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HUMANE MYTH
GLOSSARY:
Cruelty-free



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 HUMANE MYTH GLOSSARY
Abolition
Animal advocacy
Animal husbandry
Animal protection
Animal rights
Animal welfare
Animal welfare industrial complex
Animal-using industries
Co-option
Commodification
Conflict of Interest
Conscience
Conscientious objection
Critical thinking
Cruelty-free
Disillusionment
Doctrine of necessary evil
Happy Meat
Hogwashing
Humane myth
Humane slaughter
Neocarnism
Non-participation and Non-cooperation
Non-violent social change
Open Rescue
Path of Conscience
Plant-based diet
Privilege of domination
Speciesism
Suffering
Sustainable
Utilitarianism
Values-based activism
Vegan
 






Cruelty-free

Without the deliberate or unnecessary imposition of pain or harm.

Common Misuse: The animal-using industry, members of the general public, and even some animal advocates sometimes refer to animal products that are produced using methods that are claimed by the animal-using industry to cause less pain or torture to the animals as being "cruelty-free." Even in the hypothetical and extremely unlikely case of an animal who is treated from birth as a beloved friend until the moment he or she is killed for profit by the means of a "painless" lethal injection, it is not possible to claim that no cruelty has occurred. To have one's life ended prematurely against one's will is one of the most egregious acts of cruelty possible.