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98 Articles match "Pigs"
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On Honoring Living "Things"
The same is true for cows, pigs, fishes, turkeys, chickens, buffaloes, sheeps, goats, and many other nonhuman animals whom we call "food." William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My father once explained to me that he felt the profoundest guilt for having to kill other living things in order to survive, so much so that he never took more that he needed and he always apologized to the spirit of the animal or plant for cutting its life short.
Animal Person
- Thursday, March 11, 2010
Are Micro Pigs the Next Stupid Pet Trend?
This lady is breeding tiny pet pigs that can live up to 11 years. Tags: Stupid pigs companion animal Great. People are buying them like crazy, which means...eventually eventually people will start dumping them like crazy. And who will suffer?
Critter News
- Thursday, March 4, 2010
A Look at Humane Farming
In this film, we see farmers interacting with the animals they will eventually transform into food (chickens, pigs and cattle). One of the farmers interviewed says: "We give our pigs and our chickens many weeks of relatively happy life." The farmer fails to note that the natural lifespan of pigs is 11-15 years and the natural lifespan of chickens is 5-11 years, depending on breed. The film Partitions (running time: 14 min) by Audrey Kali gives an intimate glimpse of the ethical struggles that five small-scale meat farmers face when their animals are slaughtered. The farmers
Animal Ethics
- Monday, February 22, 2010
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Awesome Pig Sanctuary
Pigs Peace Sanctuary is a wonderful place. They rescue farm pigs and pot-bellied pigs,farm animals, dogs, cats, you name it. Tags: animal sanctuary pot-bellied pig We've visited it.
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Critter News
- Saturday, October 4, 2008
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Marines Still Using Pigs for Medical Training
The Marines also claim that using live pigs and inflicting wounds on them is the only way to approximate real-life situations in combat. Tags: animal research military pig They claim the animals are asleep during the procedures and feel no pain. It's the best way to train medical personnel. Read and decide for yourself.
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Critter News
- Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Pigs Used in Explosives Tests in Britain
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire. Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009.
...Tags: I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. From the BBC News...
Critter News
- Friday, February 12, 2010
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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research
Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. The explosions have Lovely. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S.
Critter News
- Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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Tests Involving the Burial of LIVE PIGS Are Halted
An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. The two-week experiment involving 29 pigs began Tuesday in the Western Austrian Alps. Tags: austria animal research pig Well, there's always some unexpected nonsense to discover. From USA Today....
Critter News
- Monday, January 18, 2010
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Are Micro Pigs the Next Stupid Pet Trend?
This lady is breeding tiny pet pigs that can live up to 11 years. Tags: Stupid pigs companion animal Great. People are buying them like crazy, which means...eventually eventually people will start dumping them like crazy. And who will suffer?
Critter News
- Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Watch Video About Pig Farming in the UK
It's a 5-minute film about conditions for pigs in the UK. Tags: UK meat pig Produced by Compassion in World Farming. As an aside, people who love to eat meat should also watch educational videos like these. They need to take responsibility and learn about the food they eat.
Critter News
- Saturday, April 11, 2009
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Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation
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. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article .) Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusines Too bad! If you complied with the law, you wouldn't look like such jerks!
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Critter News
- Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Horrible Animal Abuse at Iowa Pig Farm
Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty pigs farm animal welfar Horrific.
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Critter News
- Thursday, October 9, 2008
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Pig Castration in Europe - An Animal Welfare Concern
This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle.
...Tags: Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfar Ugh. They castrate piglets in Europe for sanitary purposes (to avoid taint in the meat), but the methods are not terribly humane.
Critter News
- Monday, January 19, 2009
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