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76 Articles match "California"

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?
This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm
Critter News - Sunday, August 15, 2010
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An Affront to the Idea of Family
The cows are walking around green fields, similar to those in the criminally misleading California cows commercials. I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. That's one of the reasons adopting wasn't a stretch for me at all mentally. There are children. Girls. Period.
Animal Person - Tuesday, August 10, 2010
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From Today's New York Times
The California law adds an arbitrary and unscientific requirement that chickens be prohibited from touching one another or the side of any enclosure. The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,
Animal Ethics - Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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  • So I'm from the New Appalachia?
    grew up in the Central Valley of California and my mother owns a home there in Gustine. I've always known that the Central Valley is one of the poorer areas of California. Tags: california This is not totally animal-related, but I'll share anyway. Today I came across this strange article from NPR about the area. Really?
    Critter News - Friday, July 10, 2009
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  • Big Ag Upset Over California Antibiotics Ban
    I actually read one headline asking whether this was the beginning of the end of commercial farming in California. Tags: california farm animal welfare us agribusiness bit of an overreaction I think. But to big ag, it's just another step on a slippery slope started by the passage of Proposition 2.
    Critter News - Friday, April 24, 2009
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  • California Budget Woes May Lead to More Shelter Deaths
    Tags: animal shelter management euthanization california strays
    Critter News - Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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  • California's Ag Industry Worried that State Committee will Focus on "Emotion"
    There is definitely a new tide in California, post Proposition 2. In a move that elevated the anxiety level among grower-shippers, Darrell Steinberg, the new president pro-tem of the California state Senate, overhauled the body’s agriculture committee. Tags: california bile farming farm animal welfare agribusiness food
    Critter News - Monday, January 19, 2009
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  • Going to California
    We'll be taking a week off in the wonderful town of Gustine CA , so we'll see about the blogging. We have a laptop, but internet connectivity may be spotty. The town will soon be chock full of Portuguese (Azoreans, to be exact). Lots of good old time religion, overeating, and cows. Muito Bem
    Critter News - Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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  • California Hoe Down
    See here. Addendum: I got to wondering about the origin of the term "hoe down." Here is what I found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed.: hoe-down A noisy, riotous dance; = breakdown 2. 1807 W. Irving Salmagundi 7 Mar. 98 As to dancing, no Long-Island negro could shuffle you ‘double trouble’, or ‘hoe corn and dig potatoes’ more scientifically.]
    Animal Ethics - Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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  • Prop 2 Passes in California
    Proposition 2 has been passed in California. 4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. From the campaign website : (Nov. As of 11 PM PST, Prop 2 was leading 62% to 38%. on Prop 2 campaign.
    Critter News - Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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  • San Francisco Passes Anti-Foie Gras Resolution
    California will be banning that awful stuff in about three years. Tags: meat california foie gras San Francisco supervisors have passed a resolution supporting city restaurants that remove foie gras from their menus. Foie gras is the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by force feeding.
    Critter News - Friday, May 8, 2009
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  • Bloodless Bullfights No Longer Interest Me
    I used to support the bloodless bullfights held in California. Anyway, here is an article that describes the practice and provides some background on the Portuguese-Americans in California. Tags: portuguese-americans california bullfighting This was a clear violation of animal law. said no.
    Critter News - Monday, September 15, 2008
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  • Protester Sentenced to Probation
    Tags: animal research california
    Critter News - Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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