131 Articles match "Industry"

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• Industrial Agriculture
  
  The wrongness of factory farming is overdetermined. See here for one sufficient ground. By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming? Instead,
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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• Consolidation of Egg Industry
  
  egg industry continues to consolidate. egg industry is planning a strategic conference after the presidential election to plan for the future. The Mexican egg industry is challenged by sanitary problems, and while it recognizes animal welfare issues they are said to not currently be a concern of Mexican consumers. ...Tags: Don't think banks are the only ones gobbling each other up nowadays. So are egg corporations.
  Critter News - Sunday, October 19, 2008
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• Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation
  
  Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article .) Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Too bad! If you complied with the law, you wouldn't look like such jerks! ...Tags:
  Critter News - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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• US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry
  
  Hard to wean people off animals when the US government is propping up the industries, and especially when so much of it ends up on school lunch trays (laying the foundation for this nation's obesity problem in my opinion.) I also have problems with subsidies to big agribusiness. Last week, the USDA bought approximately 200 million pounds of nonfat dry milk to help the dairy industry. It's just another bailout, but nothing new. We've been propping these guys up for decades.
  Critter News - Sunday, April 12, 2009
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• Pork Industry Moving into Defensive Mode
  
  The Pork Board has planned delegate meetings at the {annual Pork Industry} forum to discuss quality assurance rules including animal handling, and how much money to allocate to promote animal welfare. "Our The pork industry does not make money from happy pigs, but from dead carcasses. It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a Factory Farm." Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said. "It's
  Critter News - Thursday, March 19, 2009
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• On the Eating of Seafood
  
  As a way of taking the situation into your own hands and not being a part of the problem, the film's site offers you this widget: Now, I haven't seen the film, but here's the message: There's something rotten in the state of the fishing industry. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink animal rights Bycatch Fish Fishing industry Overfishing Seafood The End of the Line veganis "We are fighting a war against fish, and we are . . . winning."
  Animal Person - Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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• Ag Industry Looks Ahead to More Animal Welfare Issues
  
  You may hate to hear about this, but I do think that the animal-raising industries are going to have to reach some compromises with the Humane Society of the U.S. He adds that this is more than just a matter of voter education, given the $8 million spent by the California poultry industry fighting the proposition. “What What seems to be working better for the industry is to reach some kind of compromise before the It's a small mention in this Ag Week article about issues coming up in 2009 , but worth noting. Another big issue gaining momentum is animal welfare.
  Critter News - Monday, January 5, 2009
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• Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry
  
  Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends!   On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year.  In addition to heaps of information at www.RPAforAll.org about RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our
  Animal Person - Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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• Pork Industry Tries to Deal with Public Image
  
  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. The fact that this discussion warrants an article in the Des Moines Register means that there is some movement on this front and and it causes the pork industry concern. Every time I get depressed about animal issues (every other day it seems like), I see an article like this. Now, it may see like it would add to more depression, but it actually makes me feel a little better.
  Critter News - Friday, November 27, 2009
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• Exposing the Pharmaceutical Industry's Interest in Animal Research
  
  In the United States, we are in the midst of a health care debate in which the pharmaceutical industry disguises itself as a champion of the people. The author also accuses Understanding Animal Research of being a UK front group for the pharmaceutical industry. ...Tags: It is funding stealth organizations that support "patients' choices" and that assist in organized mob disruptions of town hall meetings. This is all a big charade to keep our health care system unchanged and their pharma profits high.
  Critter News - Monday, August 10, 2009
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