zoocide
See also: zoöcide
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editzoocide (plural zoocides)
- The systematic or targeted killing of animals.
- 2000, Dialogue and Universalism:
- Much later, however, during the Permian period, there was a second act of zoocide, one which is less known and less popular among filmmakers ...
- 2013, Kelsi Nagy, Phillip David Johnson II, Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
- When the bounty system alone failed to kill all the wolves, the federal government underwrote a kind of zoocide using bounties, trapping, hunting, ...
- 2016, Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 147:
- 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 ...
- Any substance intended to kill animals.