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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