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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

Critter News

July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization. .

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Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention

Animal Person

And that's fine, as we all want to spread the news of fantastic work that needs support. And that's when I get e-mails like this: Dear Mary I’m Caroline and I’m one of the Supporter Services team members for Compassion in World Farming. Note to Compassion in World Farming: I want to see the end of farms that use sentient nonhumans.

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

Critter News

They've prohibited feeding and want the animals trapped. It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of We worry about wildlife, disease and nuisance animals.” Feral cats may be an animal problem, but there is a human solution. If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

Critter News

In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). There was a poster in the lunch room with four cute animals (a dog, cat, rabbit and something else.)

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EPA Wants to Rely Less on Animal Testing

Critter News

It's not a move based on compassion, but efficiency. Environmental Protection Agency is reducing its reliance on animal testing to assess human risk of chemical toxicity and will instead focus more heavily on the tools made possible by advances in molecular biology, genomics and computational modeling.

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The Conflict Between Animal Welfare and Agribusiness

Critter News

Compassion is perceived to hurt profits. This article pretty much sums up how the two agendas are simply at cross-purposes. It spotlights the Humane Society, but I think it's a pretty universal comparison.

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Soccer Player Kicks Owl on Field?

10,000 Birds

But the disregard for animals that leads to teams using a live owl as a mascot…and having so little control over it that it got onto the field during play? OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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