10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2012
On this final day of 2012 it is time, just like it was on the final days of 2010 and 2011 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. Here, without further ado, are your Best Birds of 2012, in no particular order. I think my official Best Bird of 2012, though, was (finally, finally seeing) the Burrowing Owl.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” I think it is safe to say that yes, an intelligent animal is unhappy, even downright miserable, being confined to a crate two by seven feet for months on end. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb.
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Critter News
JUNE 10, 2011
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.
Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2012
1, 2012, egg-laying hens across many European countries will live with fewer discomforts: The European Commission has officially implemented its ban on battery cages, the notoriously cramped cages used by many egg farmers and criticized by animal rights proponents and veterinarians who call them cruel and harmful to the birds' welfare.
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
I actually read one headline asking whether this was the beginning of the end of commercial farming in California. As early as 2012, public schools would be prohibited from serving fish, poultry or meat that had been routinely treated with antibiotics. "We Tags: california farm animal welfare us agribusiness.
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