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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015. In another sign of the growing clout of the animal welfare movement, a law passed in California this year will also ban imports from other states of eggs produced in crowded cages.

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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For example, the Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act—America’s most important avian conservation laws—apply in both territories. Studies at Cabo Rojo NWR have shown that virtually all species have declined more than 70% between 1985 and 2015. Both territories are also part of the U.S.