Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
If it passes, it will encourage other states' ag industries to go on the offensive to protect their "raw materials.". Tags: ohio farm animal welfare us agribusiness. Would such a bill lead to jurisdiction over puppy mill breeders as well? It's an issue to follow though.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. The industry sued California, arguing that Section 599f is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act.
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Critter News
JULY 8, 2011
Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.
Critter News
JANUARY 6, 2009
I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry. As Iowa’s Governor, Tom Vilsack took steps to protect animals, including vetoing a bill that allowed dove hunting.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? And I really would have like to know what happens to that land when the industry goes. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. I’m sorry.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 7, 2015
To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.'
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.
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