HBO Documentary on Factory Farm Premiers March 16th
Critter News
MARCH 12, 2009
Called Death on a Factory Farm, the documentary shows animal cruelty on a hog farm in Ohio. You can read about it here.
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How to Confront Cruelty
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OCTOBER 26, 2008
I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.
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Pork Industry Moving into Defensive Mode
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2009
It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a Factory Farm." The Pork Board has planned delegate meetings at the {annual Pork Industry} forum to discuss quality assurance rules including animal handling, and how much money to allocate to promote animal welfare. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.
Baby Chicks Ground Up
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov.
Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
This includes refusing to support business firms that cause, or profit from, animal suffering. As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167).
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