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Claims about meat, poultry products come under greater USDA scrutiny

AVMA News

Department of Agriculture is stepping up efforts to ensure the veracity of claims about food animal products marketed as "free range" and "antibiotic free."

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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"

Animal Person

You may know Jose Valle of the International Organization for the Abolition of Animal Slavery, AnimalEquality. We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). Thanks a lot.

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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article. To treat animals fairly, he needs to treat his workers fairly."

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How to ‘treat’ your cat right

4 The Love Of Animals

Bought toys usually include small stuffed animals and assorted plastic objects that it’s safe for cats to chew. Temptations treats include the All Naturals range; available in 4 all natural flavors – Wild Alaskan Salmon, Beef Tenderloin, Free Range Chicken and Yellow Fin Tuna, these natural cat treats have added vitamins and minerals.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

Is what he did consciously to his pitbulls that much worse than what we do unconsciously to animals every day? Some of us forget that dogs are mere animals, and that animal mistreatment is as American as Apple iPods. Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. None of us is pure.

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.