Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

And that's fine, as we all want to spread the news of fantastic work that needs support. By encouraging people to bake with higher welfare eggs (as well as organic milk, butter and chocolate) vital funds will be raised to campaign against battery cages. Case in point: AnimalEquality.

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

This is great news for animal rights because it's one more piece of evidence that humans aren't as exceptional as we like to think we are. Rather, we set out to understand what animals are like, and use the language and concepts that come closest to describing what we see" ( Wild Justice , 41).

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

All animals would be kept in battery conditions and the righteous vegetarians would exert no economic pressure on farmers to change their ways. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original]) Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

For example, "free roaming chickens" conjures up images of happy chickens running free and unfettered all about the barnyard, when in fact the label "free roaming chickens" just means chickens that were not raised in battery cages. News flash: Slaughtering horses does not promote their welfare.

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Critter News

JUNE 10, 2011

In the decree the Spanish Government outlines a training and publicity initiatives to promote new methods of production to farmers and the public as well as a timeline to receive and investigate plans for conversion as well as committing €300m in loans for farmers to convert to enriched facilities. Interesting!

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Surprising to me at least. The editorial advocates a national standard that establishes humane standards in all parts of the country.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Hiking For The Heck of It Reason To Become a Bird Watcher #1: No Batteries Required Welcome Wednesday: Musings on a Big Year About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

and Canada are actively opposing battery cages. Some 200 companies have an average flock size of one million hens in a single location, with the top 60 companies producing 85% of all eggs. At the International Egg Commission’s annual meeting, held last month in China, it was noted that animal welfare activists in the U.S.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

I still eat eggs that come from battery hens, even though I do try to buy free range, and I wear leather, even though I only buy it used. But the rest of us rat-killing, horse-racing, lobster-boiling, deer-hunting carnivores should take the planks out of our eyes before trying to remove the speck from Vick's. None of us is pure.

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