Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Chris from Beijing wasn't able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer's sequel to Eating Animals. Not Eating Animals. And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The Animal Welfare Institute thinks these new rules could be a blow to the horse slaughter industry, but only if actually implemented. Tags: canada meat horse slaughter Slaughterhouse.

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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]

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

Two bills introduced in the Nebraska Legislature are drawing fire from the largest animal advocacy organization in the world. Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines. Newcomer to the Legislature Sen.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

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. Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animal welfare factory farm animal welfare.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. The natural environment, unlike individual animals, is inanimate, unconscious, and insentient.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Every time I get depressed about animal issues (every other day it seems like), I see an article like this. And, of course, this view of farm animals is the norm. Tags: meat pigs pork farm animal welfare. Now, it may see like it would add to more depression, but it actually makes me feel a little better.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. But that's me.

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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. It's not just a question of animal rights. But, really, even if I ate meat, I wouldn't touch KFC. Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animal welfare susan g.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. For other people, “humane” means it is okay to eat the animal as long as the following conditions are met: 1.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. If you live in the UK, please urge Jim Fitzpatrick, Minister for Animal Welfare, to make the right choice for UK chickens and quash the squash, by sending an email via our campaign website at Quash the Squash.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping. And so, the local subspecies of Bewick’s wren, a bird described in 1908 a “very common on all parts of the island,” was gone by the 1940’s, its habitat converted into goat flesh. And so, the U.S.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

At issue was whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed, and sold for human consumption preempted -- or nullified -- California Penal Code 599f.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Of course, the meat is more expensive since it takes lots of real estate to freely graze a herd, and it’s tougher than typical supermarket fare (Americans are used to a style of marbling that’s caused by grain diets and flabby cattle, whereas grass-fed cows are trim from their daily ambles). Andrew Rimas Evan D. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass.,

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. However, Jewish and Islamic groups which can prove animals do not suffer more during ritual killing than in an ordinary slaughterhouse will be able to apply for permits.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

Yesterday , Abby wrote: Off topic, but I was wondering if you have any advice for those of us who are highly emotionally sensitive and also interested in animal welfare issues? I get so sad when I hear about the mistreatment of animals that it really affects me, but at the same time I want to be able to create change in the world.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I think it is safe to say that yes, an intelligent animal is unhappy, even downright miserable, being confined to a crate two by seven feet for months on end. The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. Potentially bad news for California Agriculture. Read the full story here at the LA Times.

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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. It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. And for poor people, higher prices would mean less meat in their diets.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. For example, we will not claim that Martin is opposed to moral vegetarianism because he likes to eat meat without a guilty conscience.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,” by Gary Steiner (Op-Ed, Nov. In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat.

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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. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”

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Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

350 To wasten, on welfare and on wykked kepynge, Al e worlde in a while orw owre witte. 2/1 in Holinshed, Those that are giuen much vnto wine and such welfare. b. Abundance (of meat, drink). 1880) 61 ei.han lordschipis, rentis, gaie houses & costy, & welfare of mete & drynk. HARRISON Descr.

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Critter News

JANUARY 10, 2012

Once again, the wonderful Mercy for Animals provides footage of possible abuse of turkeys at a Butterball farm in North Carolina. The full story is at CNN.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Here's an example of "joint costs" that says all you need to know about animals as nothing more than inputs in a manufacturing process. The meat packing industry takes a single input, a steer, and produces many different final products.

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Critter News

JUNE 6, 2012

This article reaffirms my belief that it's more humane to slaughter horses in the US than to ship them for slaughter to Canada or Mexico. I don't like it either way, but one is better than the other for sure.

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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. 11, 2008

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2010

I also have a rule to eat any cultural food when I am traveling to another country or am a guest or have guests of people from another culture who eat food with meat. So, how you would respond a person like me who cares for animal welfare, consciously stays away from the worse meat he can, and eats it mostly for cultural reasons.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

Californian farmers and ranchers would be prohibited from routinely dosing healthy farm animals with antibiotics under a bill getting its first level of approval on 21 April in the state Senate, reports Central Valley Business Times. Then we feed those same antibiotics daily to the animals they will consume.

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