Critter News
JANUARY 19, 2009
They castrate piglets in Europe for sanitary purposes (to avoid taint in the meat), but the methods are not terribly humane. This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle.
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2009
How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. This is really interesting. I certainly didn't.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2010
"The challenge is to gain insights - in a scientifically rigorous way - into how animals' minds work," CSIRO scientist Caroline Lee said in a statement on Wednesday. The research is being funded by Meat and Livestock Australia.
Critter News
MAY 17, 2010
Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. for cancer research. It's not just a question of animal rights. But, really, even if I ate meat, I wouldn't touch KFC. I am not a fan of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2009
I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology). The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue). But I’m merely making his point.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.
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