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ASPCA Change Your Chicken Challenge #ChangeYourChicken

4 The Love Of Animals

The love that we have for all animals is what inspired us to begin this blog in 2007. So animal cruelty, of any kind, is something we do not take lightly.

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Clemson Researcher Investigates Impacts of Cages on Laying Hens

Critter News

More is at stake than just the comfort of chickens, though the well-being of 284 million U.S. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. From the Clemson press release. laying hens is no small matter.

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Bird Limericks

10,000 Birds

Back in 2007, DK Publishing produced what I still consider the consummate birding coffee table book. In the autumn, our darkening skies Fill with crows, then each cloud of them flies To a suitable tree, Where they land, and to me, Form an animate, foliate disguise. * The chicken hawk–It’s a bit sad– Is disparaged.

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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

Animal Person

But the really telling language begins with the next sentence: "The situation has renewed the debate over whether reopening slaughterhouses in the United States — the last ones closed in 2007 — would help address the problem.". Not approving the institutionalized slaughter of the horses we claim to hold so dear lowers that value.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a longtime vegan with three vegan-from-birth children, I would like to suggest that since vegetarians are generally healthier than meat eaters, there is no excuse for compassionate people to eat animals. There is no moral difference between eating a dog or a pig, a cat or a chicken. Borders Jr. Louisville, Ky.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Yes, all food animals should meet a dignified end. But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens. March 5, 2007 The writer is an owner of Fasig-Tipton , North America’s oldest thoroughbred auction house. Hope Ryden New York, March 5, 2007 The writer is the author of a book about America’s last wild horses.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

18): As a microbiologist, I know that study after study has highlighted the human health threat from using antibiotics as feed additives for hogs, chickens and cattle, creating super-bugs—bacteria that no longer can be treated with antibiotics. To the Editor: Re “ Antibiotic Runoff ” (editorial, Sept.