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Treating cruelty to animals with the seriousness it deserves doesn’t only protect animals, it also makes the entire community safer. March 18, 2010 The writer is director of the Emergency Response Team, cruelty investigations department, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Martin Mersereau Norfolk, Va.,

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While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry.

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Death on a Factory Farm

Animal Ethics

Death on a Factory Farm" chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. The documentary airs tonight (Monday, March 16) starting at 9:00 p.m. Central time, but check your local listings for local show times.

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Kathy Guillermo Director Laboratory Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., And when one considers that millions of dogs and cats are killed each year in shelters because there are no homes for them, cloning becomes unethical as well. May 21, 2008

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He would have saved us the necessity of sending an undercover investigator to film the shocking mistreatment of animals. Nocera actually had such clairvoyant powers over the meat-packing industry, why didn’t he put them to use last autumn and blow the whistle on the Westland/Hallmark slaughter plant?

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It, too, traced, with a great deal of investigative reporting, the journey fat trimmings take through the meatpacking industry. To the Editor: “ Company’s Record on Treatment of Beef Is Called Into Question ” (front page, Dec. 31): Would the average American have believed that hamburgers were treated with ammonia to remove salmonella and E.

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Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for.