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Hope for Hen Welfare

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Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. Currently, approximately 50 million laying hens are confined at only 48 square inches per bird.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He would have saved us the necessity of sending an undercover investigator to film the shocking mistreatment of animals. Most Americans, by contrast, join with us in demanding better regulations to safeguard farm animals and more credible inspections of our food. Mr. Nocera is anything but a soothsayer.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. 9, 2008 The writer is president of United Poultry Concerns , a nonprofit organization that is a sponsor of Proposition 2. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

We eat animals, and the CAFO system is an evil, filthy, cruel one, but it doesn't have to be that way. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,

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