Meaning of zoocide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The systematic or targeted killing of animals.
2. Alternative spelling of zoocide.
   alt-of, alternative
3. Any substance intended to kill animals.

Examples

“Much later, however, during the Permian period, there was a second act of zoocide, one which is less known and less popular among filmmakers ...”

“When the bounty system alone failed to kill⟳ all the wolves, the federal government underwrote a kind of zoocide using bounties, trapping, hunting, ...”

“Our proposal is that we speak⟳ of zoocide in cases where animals are systematically put⟳ to death in large numbers. Zoocide cannot be placed on the same level ...”

“[A]ny sort⟳ of desire for the future to be more responsive to the ecological and the ethical requires a clarification of the system as it now exists, alongside the promotion of wider struggle⟳ against structures of zoöcide.”

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