Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

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. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now. Australian Dairy Farmers animal health and welfare chairman David Basham, said studies had shown "no adverse affects on welfare up to 30 hours". ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Full article on Food Safety News. Emeritus Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph in Ontario and the President of the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada. To offset yesterday's crappy news about California, here's good news from the EU! As of Jan. As of Jan. egg producers an estimated £400 million ($613 million).

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Every time I get depressed about animal issues (every other day it seems like), I see an article like this. It's an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as intelligent creatures that could be someone's pet. Tags: meat pigs pork farm animal welfare. it's just a turkey."

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

According to her, there was a message that removing the use of antibiotics would actually improve these poor animals' welfare. Here is an article about the series. Tags: antibiotics cbs farm animal welfare factory farm agriculture agribusiness. Unfortunately, I missed this series as we don't watch network television.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This is a good article about the puppy mills operated by a Western Washington woman and her parents. The article is particularly thorough and damning. Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us. This is definitely a situation that could have been stopped early on.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2009

This article has a good summary of the victories to which this industry is reacting. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. "Clearly the animal rights community is much more emboldened and aggressive than they have been in the past," said {National Milk Producers Federation} spokesman Chris Galen. "We

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JANUARY 3, 2023

These prescriptions are very important to Tuttle-Adams, who takes the perhaps radical approach that a bird’s welfare supersedes a birder’s ‘right’ to take a photograph. A birder or rehabber looking for a comprehensive collection should consider having both books in their collection.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Go here for the full article. Advertisement: Story continues below "Ultimately, the outcomes of this research will expand on our understanding of emotional and cognitive functions of livestock and the impacts of farming practices on animal welfare." The purpose is to make them happier as livestock.

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Critter News

JANUARY 7, 2009

Here's a Montreal Gazette article on the vile proliferation of puppy mills in Quebec. Tags: canada quebec puppy mills animal welfare.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Look at all these incidents that have occurred there (listed in the Montreal Gazette article in the above link).I Tags: zoos welfare violations animal welfare. Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. A zookeeper had left the knife behind in the exhibit.

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Critter News

APRIL 25, 2010

Unfortunately, a record number of horses are now going to Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses, where there is no USDA control over animal welfare conditions. This article also talks about my least favorite bastard chef Gordon Ramsey and the aftermath of his comments to eat horse. I just don't know.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

click here for the full article. He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act. From the Lexington Clipper-Herald. Two bills introduced in the Nebraska Legislature are drawing fire from the largest animal advocacy organization in the world. Newcomer to the Legislature Sen.

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Critter News

MAY 12, 2009

From an article in, of all places, "Farm and Dairy: The Auction Guide and Rural Marketplace:".there Tags: animal cruelty animal welfare hoarding. Animal hoarding is a pretty serious act that causes untold suffering for animals.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Of course, right now, they're just being shipped to Canada and Mexico anyway, where health and welfare standards are much, much lower. Read the complete article at pantagraph.com. Bad news for horses in the US. Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I looked online and all I could find was this article on The Vegetarian Site. None of the employees at my local store could offer any information concerning the welfare of the hens. Tags: eggs consumption farm animal welfare groceries. Here's what they say about Trader Joe's eggs (definitely does not sound humane to me.)

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

“Although the court noted that these practices are controversial and that downed animals ‘suffer greatly,’ it found the record on appeal insufficient to warrant striking the regulations at this time,” explains an article from the Environmental News Service. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm us.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. The article continues. I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]

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Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2009

Canadian fisheries ministry representative Garry Stenson said the hunt “is humane, well regulated and sustainable” and that new rules for the hunt were under review to strengthen inspections, monitoring and enforcement of animal welfare rules. The article does say that the Inuit communities would have special exemptions.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

After reading this article , I'm rescuing the next ones I see. Even before the New Scientist study, the European Food Safety Authority's Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare had concluded that lobsters and crabs are capable of experiencing pain and distress and are worthy of legislative protection.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

Related articles by Zemanta Doctors endorse vegan and vegetarian diets for healthy pregnancies (scienceblog.com). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com). Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The article does, however, gloss over the undeniable fact that even cows with names produce milk only because they have recently given birth to calves who, if male, have been taken away from them. Even at Bob Bansen’s dairy, food comes at the cost of animal welfare. 10, 2012

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I don't believe they are working for human welfare. The title of this article is "Researchers to animal-rights activists: We are not afraid." I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I'm sorry, but I am not moved.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

It's from a Reuters article from last May.I The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each year, mostly mice and rats. Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

If you can get through the article's pernicious nonsense, there are some salient points, albeit the result of confusion on the part of the author. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare." Animal activists don't care about the health or welfare of deer herds?

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2012

This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced! California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced.

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Critter News

JUNE 6, 2012

This article reaffirms my belief that it's more humane to slaughter horses in the US than to ship them for slaughter to Canada or Mexico. I don't like it either way, but one is better than the other for sure.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Sometimes an article has a couple of the above, as in the case of " Chinese Legal Experts Call for a Ban on Eating Cats and Dogs." Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? Just because you did something for years doesn't mean it has some magical inherent value and you should continue to do it today and tomorrow.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Here's an article from the Telegraph regarding chickens feeling empathy. The research is from the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. I used to hate chickens as a child and thought they were irritating.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article. And they were, before they stopped their train of thought prior to it reaching its most important station.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 17, 2008

To the Editor: Thank you for publicizing the plight of satos—street dogs—in Puerto Rico in “ Scrutiny for Puerto Rico Over Animal Treatment ” (news article, March 9). Thank you for doing just that, by telling the American public what’s happening in Puerto Rico through your compelling article and photographs.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 25, 2007

To the Editor: “ For ‘Animal Precinct,’ Reality Subject to Dispute ” (news article, July 23) missed the entire point of comprehensive animal welfare: that effective animal welfare requires both response and prevention. We constantly stretch our limited resources to save lives as a nonprofit organization.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 8, 2008

To the Editor: While businesses that rent dogs may be well intentioned, they’re unlikely to benefit the overall welfare of pets, and may actually do harm to the individual dogs they “rent” (“ For a Temporary Best-Friend Fix, Rent a Dog (Kibble Included) for a Day ,” news article, March 30).

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2012

I copied the full article from the Latin American Herald Tribune. Late on this story. MEXICO CITY – Animal rights activists staged a protest against the sale of pets in Mexico City, urging residents to adopt dogs and other animals instead of buying them.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.” In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.”

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

To the Editor: Missing from your article was mention of deleterious environmental and health effects resulting from intensive animal farming in addition to global warming. This would result in improved human health, decreased environmental destruction and better animal welfare. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass., Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.

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