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Royal Decree Issued in Spain Over Animal Welfare

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The Spanish government has taken the unusual step of issuing a royal decree to compel farmers to report on what action they are taking to comply with the 2012 conventional cage-ban and if they require any government assistance. Here's an excerpt from Farmers Weekly Interactive.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

21, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst’s observations about happy pigs and unhappy farmers aren’t about the well-being of either. The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. 20, 2012 The writer is a doctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.