10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

KAYTEE Wild Bird Products worked with Southeast Arizona Bird Observatory to establish the Arizona Hummingbird Disaster Relief effort supporting the health and welfare of the resident and migrating hummingbirds by shipping $50,000 of product for placement throughout the region.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. The pig industry, says Dr MacDougald, is marked by generally poor production and financial analysis. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5. This principle reaffirms that animal welfare is an integral part of modern conservation. Capturing wild animals for live trade and captivity should not be permitted.

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

On March 19, 2009 a company representative emailed Compassion Over Killing: "…I am pleased to let you know the BOCA brand will be eliminating eggs in all of its products by the end of this year. We anticipate all BOCA products will be egg free in 2010." Tags: battery hens eggs farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 Changing production conditions are bound to affect the bottom the line. Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Species Accounts are organized by family according to the 61st Supplement (2020) of the AOS Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (the 62nd Supplement came out while the book was in production, which is to be expected).

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Critter News

OCTOBER 23, 2008

EBay has announced a worldwide ban on the sale of ivory products on its auction websites from next year. The International Fund for Animal Welfare will say more than 4,000 ivory products have been listed on eBay. The International Fund for Animal Welfare will say more than 4,000 ivory products have been listed on eBay.

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Critter News

MAY 17, 2010

Chickens that are used for KFC products are horribly treated. Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animal welfare susan g. However, I can hardly believe that they would actually partner with KFC (KFC!!!) for cancer research. It's not just a question of animal rights. But, really, even if I ate meat, I wouldn't touch KFC.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Quick work on the part of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), in partnership with the Humane Society of the U.S. and more than a dozen animal shelters and rescues[1] succeeded in placing all of the rescued animals, offering hope that they will find loving homes and solace after their ordeal.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Trader Joe's, a national specialty grocer, offers a large range of vegan and soy products. 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. They also offer "Cage Free" eggs.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Not only did they arrange for exports, they also are accused of colluding to limit production and to increase cage sizes so that fewer hens can be kept. This is actually good for animal welfare, but goes to show that only greed will motivate these bastards to do anything.) Scarcity then leads to high prices.

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Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2009

They are testifying with Canada against an EU ban on seal products. 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.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

Animals are raw materials to process for product. This is mass production. They were simply factors of production at that time too. It’s the nature of the beast of mass production. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. I highly recommend Farm Sanctuary's issue page.short and to the point.)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

I’ve recently returned from a filming trip in Arizona where I have been working on a production for National Geographic on Harris’s (Harris) Hawks. During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. The League believes that the bloodsport of falconry should be banned.&#

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But can we really imagine an economic system that delivers prosperity and welfare, or is competition an unavoidable consequence of the human race? How can we, as individuals, help form a society that is both productive and resolves actual societal and environmental problems?

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Apostol said “It is the responsibility of us, the designers and manufacturers, to bring environmental awareness to the consumer by providing more and better sustainable products and style.” Born Free USA (BFUSA) is a nationally recognized leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. welfare") is the best that any of us can ever hope for, and of course what is a change in the way I kill you other than a change in the method by which you die. Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? This is simply honesty.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. 20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that.

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Her death on an operating table in the Bronx would help animal welfare advocates break a long-standing stalemate in Congress and push through the most significant animal-protection bill in American history. Didn't she represent the dawn of a new age of profiting from the "production" and sale of animals?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The main difference is that Foer doesn't eat meat (though he does, as it turns out, eat some animal products) and he challenges the cultural assumptions that tell us that some animals are for petting and some are for eating. But the net message is the same: factory farming=bad, small farms=good. It's okay to choose enslavement.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 19, 2006

We are an animal welfare group working for animals in India— www.hopeandanimal.org we have tie up with a US based company for fund raising—If you buy pet products from www.petmedusa.net 10% of sale proceeds are donated to our organisation—Pls Bid and buy the product. with regards, Praveen Ohal

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

Supreme Court rules on health care challenge| GPS tracking "The Federal Meat Inspection Act regulates slaughterhouses' handling and treatment of non-ambulatory pigs from the moment of their delivery through the end of the meat production process," wrote Justice Elena Kagan.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 4, 2007

The documentary is not short on topics for substantive debate including "humane meat," productivity vs welfare, "animal terrorism laws," and of course the American Veterinary Medical Association's role in welfare reform. If you are able to post something on this documentary I would be grateful.

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. It could have a snowball effect for other countries in Europe, although probably it certainly won't be seen as politically correct. Excerpted from the Irish Times.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Berman said all milk products - everything from cheese to butter - got more expensive. Berman said the milk producers called it "dairy herd retirement", but he insists it was a way to cheat consumers and line their own pockets. His firm sued Cooperatives Working Together, its members are dairy companies and trade groups.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production. For example, while Proposition 2 would provide greater freedom of movement, it would very likely compromise other factors necessary to ensure the overall welfare of the animals, especially with regard to protection from disease and injury.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

I understand the need for critique and productive criticism within a movement. And people who say they want us to stop using animals, yet whose tactics appear to be in the service of the welfare of animals, can be called "new welfarists." In terms of language, people who eat dead bodies can be called "corpse munchers."

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

He then says he goes to "exceptional lengths" to make ensure the physical and psychological welfare of the primates he uses, "except when it's absolutely necessary" to harm them. What Jentsch is doing is counter-productive. Then comes the introduction to Vlasak wanting to harm individuals who harm animals.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

For example, the Treaty of Amsterdam that came into force on May 1, 1999, formally acknowledged that nonhuman animals are “sentient beings” and not merely goods or agricultural products. The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.”

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

But this question of Butchery is not merely one of kindness or unkindness to animals, for by the very facts of the case it is a human question of no slight importance, affecting as it does the social and moral welfare of those more immediately concerned in it. Henry S.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Since chickens of the strain raised for meat production aren't typically raised in cages, the label "free roaming chicken" can legally be applied to chickens that were painfully debeaked and then permanently confined in an overcrowded shed with 100,000 other chickens each of whom had 7/10 of a square foot of floor space.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. To the Editor: Re “ A Farm Boy Reflects ” (column, July 31): Hats off to Nicholas D. And for poor people, higher prices would mean less meat in their diets.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

VARIETIES OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM Moral vegetarianism will be understood as the view that because of some moral principles one ought not to eat certain edible animals and perhaps animal products. On the traditional position, justification of vegetarianism was in terms of animal welfare, happiness, rights, and so on.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. Various lobby groups, world food organizations, and consumer and environmentalist groups putting pressure on meat producers to utilize these waste products to feed animals might be a much more effective way of conserving grain than vegetarianism.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Animal rights advocates have singled out the crates, known as sow stalls, as inhumane, and several states have moved to ban or restrict their use not only in pork production, but also in the production of eggs and veal. There are alternatives we think are better for the welfare of sows.”.

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