46 Articles match "2008","Animal","Farming"

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• Farm Animals Help Alleviate Mental Illness
  
  The study was released in April 2008, but I think it is still worth noting. new study, published online in Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, suggests that animal assisted therapy for people with mental disorders can be effective with farm animals. It's not just cats and dogs!
  Critter News - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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• Horrible Animal Abuse at Iowa Pig Farm
  
  Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty pigs farm animal welfare
  Critter News - Thursday, October 9, 2008
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• Some Good News In NJ Farm Animals Case
  
  Thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this information from August 8. In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.
  Critter News - Sunday, August 17, 2008
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• Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?
  
  Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.
  Critter News - Sunday, August 15, 2010
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• Support Animals Asia
  
  I recently wrote my first check to Animals Asia. They are doing very important work on animal welfare in Asia. especially appreciate the work they do on those horrific bear bile farms that are really just a form of torture for the animal. Our Vision Change for all animals, inspired by empathy for the few.
  Critter News - Monday, December 1, 2008
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• The Family Farm
  
  Here is a New York Times story about traditional farming, which is a darn sight better for animals than factory farming
  Animal Ethics - Friday, April 4, 2008
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• Consolidation of Egg Industry
  
  Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information. These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. At the International Egg Commission’s annual meeting, held last month in China, it was noted that animal welfare activists in the U.S. The U.S.
  Critter News - Sunday, October 19, 2008
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• Update on Proposition 2 in CA
  
  Again, thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this update on California's proposition 2. The action prompted many farmed animal vets to leave CVMA and form the Association of California Veterinarians, which subsequently voted to oppose the ballot initiative, reports Feedstuffs.
  Critter News - Sunday, August 17, 2008
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• Proposition 2 Poll
  
  on Prop 2 campaign reports a tidal wave of voter and donor support from Californians backing the effort to stop the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals on industrial factory farms. Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factory farm chickens It's from September 30, from the Humane Society. Chief economist?
  Critter News - Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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• Turkey Abuse in West Virginia Aviagen Plant
  
  Another nasty farm animal abuse story. Bottom line: If you’re running a business where you allow the kinds of shortcuts that let animal abuse happen, please sell it and leave the industry now. Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre Overlooked this one. Find another line of work.
  Critter News - Saturday, November 29, 2008
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