Escaped Cow Goes to Sanctuary
Critter News
MAY 8, 2009
A cow that escaped from a slaughter house in NY City has been allowed to go to an animal sanctuary. Tags: meat animal rescue Slaughterhouse cows meatpacking.
Agriculture Fears Possible "Cow Tax"
Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2008
4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. The proposal was one of several drafted after a 2007 Supreme Court ruling found that greenhouse gases the animals emit through flatulence or belching amounts to air pollution. Remember cows "emit" methane.) Gimme, gimme, gimme!
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On Killing Cows to Save Elephants
Animal Person
MAY 14, 2009
In other words, it's so tragic that elephants are in mortal danger that you should kill cows to help protect the imperiled elephants? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Those pondering a pair should act fast. There are only 50 available. To whom does that make sense or sound like a good idea?
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EU Backing Cloned Animal Products
Critter News
OCTOBER 18, 2010
It's bad enough having to deal with the welfare of normal farm animals, but what about the welfare of cloned animals? Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the animals and a lack of research on food safety. Tags: europe cloning farm animal welfare. From the Daily Mail.
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27,000 Animals Rescued in Texas
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
It was an exotic animal importing firm (why the eff do those even exist?) that was allegedly mistreating its animals. A lot of these animals are reptiles, spiders and amphibians, which explains the large number. The raid followed an undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. That's HUGE.
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Sad About World Farm Animals Day
Critter News
OCTOBER 2, 2009
World Farm Animals Day was today. There was a picture on the bus commemorating the event with a picture of a cow looking, dare I say it, noble and long-suffering. Tags: depressed farm animal welfare. Perhaps it's because of gloomy October or maybe it's because I'm getting over the flu, but I felt very sad. How depressing.
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On Nonhuman Animals and Human Babies
Animal Person
JULY 6, 2010
I did go to Babies-R-Us for some odds and ends and here's the Animal Person-related experience. Animals are all over the place at Babies-R-Us. As long as the animals aren't on a farm or otherwise being used by humans, I love the idea of animals in the lives of babies. Tags: Current Affairs. At least at this stage.
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100 Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2010
President Obama promised to eliminate wasteful government spending; funding for animal research is one area that is overdue for reform. Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. Tags: animal research Obama. Please do not advertise to sell your pets.
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100 On Betraying Your Family
Animal Person
AUGUST 13, 2010
Yesterday, in the comments of An Affront to the Idea of Family , Brian wrote: I understand your concern for those cows that were beat by that man and the unfortunate death of all the cows that died in the snow storm. I love my cows and I don't anyone touch them in that manner. That is not true. His family members total 2000.
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Conklin Farm Owner Will Not Face Charges
Critter News
JULY 10, 2010
the tape {from an undercover investigation by Mercy for Animals,) Conklin is shown kicking a cow that is lying down. The Union County sheriff's office said it had four veterinarians with experience in large-animal care review the tape. A cow's muscles may atrophy.
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100 On "That's Why We Don't Eat Animals"
Animal Person
DECEMBER 27, 2009
" That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things ," written and illustrated by Ruby Roth, has gorgeous and haunting illustrations. And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn't eat factory farmed animals. Because if there's one of those places, can we eat those animals?"
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An Affront to the Idea of Family
Animal Person
AUGUST 10, 2010
The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." That doesn't mean that 99% of dairy products are from family farms , as the average number of cows on each family farm is just over 100. The cows' tails swing in the breeze.
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PETA Uncovers Horrible Conditions at Land O'Lakes Supplier
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
From PETA's site: A new PETA undercover investigation inside a Land O'Lakes supplier facility in Pennsylvania has revealed routine neglect and cruelty to cows who are milked for the Fortune 250 company's products. And the disturbing video: Tags: animal cruelty PETA.
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Forget About Equal, How About Alive
Animal Person
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." I thought: What if those were women, ears tagged, imprisoned in some metal contraption that made it easier for the man behind them to inseminate them. Tags: Activism Current Affairs.
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NYT Opens the Door to the Humane Myth
Animal Person
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Riddle me this: What's the difference between a cow and someone on death row? For one thing, the cow has not been convicted of some heinous crime. The cow will be executed simply because she is a cow. Where's the moral objection on behalf of cows? Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.
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4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 8, 2009
Animal Care and Animal Planet Co-Host the Annual ANIMAL CARE Gala Fundraiser on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at PACHA New York. Animal Care & Control of New York City is pleased to announce their second annual fundraising gala, which will be co-hosted by the popular cable network Animal Planet.
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Quote of the Week
Critter News
MARCH 30, 2009
How many meat-eaters would cut the throat of a cow themselves, and hack open its belly with a knife to empty its intestines? But the thousands of daily deaths of animals are hidden away and on the butcher's shelf meat looks innocuous, nothing like the living thing it was. Tags: quotes.
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UK May Require Microchipping of Dogs
Critter News
APRIL 1, 2010
In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can result in a prison sentence, animal rights experts and politicians say street thugs have turned to dangerous-looking dogs to cow their victims. Tags: UK microchips legislation dogs.
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100 The Irony of The Girl Effect
Animal Person
DECEMBER 2, 2009
But the cow part? The irony of the cow part is that much of this Oprah show was about slavery. The irony of the inclusion of the cow in The Girl Effect is that it swaps one form of slavery for another. The central message of the program was not about enslaving animals, of course. Human slavery, of course. Sex slavery.
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Farm Sanctuary needs help.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 15, 2010
Farm Sanctuary operates the country’s largest farm animal rescue and adoption network. Every year, they assist with urgent placement needs, particularly in cruelty cases involving large numbers of animals. If you or someone you know is, equipped to provide a forever home for a farm animal in need, please consider doing so!
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100 On Wipeout and Lion Burgers
Animal Person
JUNE 23, 2010
The commentator says that part of her winnings will go to abolish animal cruelty (yes, abolish). Interviewer: "Wait, so you want to abolish animal cruelty, except for chickens and fish, (pointing at the contestant) because she doesn't like them?". Contestant (mortified, laughing, with hand over her mouth): "Cows.".
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For Your Health, the Planet & the Animals: VBM
Animal Person
JULY 26, 2009
There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought. And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! I call it VBM: Vegan Between Meals.
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Elk Hunting For Idiots
Critter News
DECEMBER 29, 2009
That's right, a herd of panicked elk were cornered in a cow pasture and a group of boneheads decided to "hunt" them. You pin some animals inside a barbed wire closure then allow people to come in there and take shots at them with arrows. 'You Tags: idiocy. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?"
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Are Farm Animals Usually Killed in a Humane Manner?
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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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business
Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
Let's deconstruct: The heading is: "Okay, so your steak comes from a cow that lived a happy life--but how did that life end?" It's a cow who--who--lived an allegedly happy life. The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article. To treat animals fairly, he needs to treat his workers fairly."
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Study Claims Islamic Slaughtering More Humane
Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2008
I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. It is also used to prevent the animal from feeling pain before it dies. Tags: islam Slaughterhouse Germany cows.
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100 On Being Upset by Carnage That Comes Too Soon
Animal Person
JUNE 16, 2009
It never ceases to amaze me that people will get upset about the death of an animal whose killing was their job. In " Cows Killed by Lightning Strike ," by Angie Brown of the BBC Scotland, which today was updated to "Lightning Strike Kills Bullocks," we learn that Mr. McDougal was "very upset," numb and shocked by "the carnage he saw."
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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China
Animal Person
JANUARY 27, 2010
I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone. Where do people get that idea?
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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?
Animal Person
APRIL 26, 2009
Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right?
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100 On Wearable "Roadkill"
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.". The underlying philosophy is that the dead animals "should be used in their entirety." We should all be so lucky.”.
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100 On Changing Tastes
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
Her hurdle, you might not be surprised to learn, is cheese made from the milk of cows. She eats cow cheese daily. I was completely confident that she'd instantly get over her desire for cow cheese. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Food and Drink. Or just stayed away from the topic of cheese.
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Why Top Chef Makes Me So Mad
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Another one from this season was wearing a diagram of a cow with all its "cuts" outlined. And frankly, I'm not sure these chefs have the training to do anything that doesn't involve a baby animal. The main challenge involves frog legs, rabbits, live lobsters (still moving) and other animals. What the eff? And this frigging show.
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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo
Animal Person
MARCH 20, 2010
It's not like these people care about animals. Their kids are probably gonna be petting the animals they're eating and they might not even know it." Here 's a factsheet about petting zoos, which at least in Florida have been a public health threat , to say nothing of the exploitation and suffering of the animals.)
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On Cat Killers and Mental Competency
Animal Person
JUNE 26, 2009
Felony animal cruelty is the cruel killing of an animal, and he is also being charges with 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body.) The four counts of burglary he is being charged with carry a heftier sentence than the animal killing. We don't say we hate cows. In fact we say we love them.
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On Cannibalism
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. It's a bit difficult to take on the soul question for human or nonhuman animals, particularly for an atheist. I think not.
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On "The Wild"
Animal Person
AUGUST 5, 2009
Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption.
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On "Cheating" and Cookbook Authors
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
the way we treat animals, and the way we turn food into food facsimiles with unusually long shelf lives. You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't. Alicia (laughing): Well, I'd have to see the cows and the chickens. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language.
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US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry
Critter News
APRIL 12, 2009
Hard to wean people off animals when the US government is propping up the industries, and especially when so much of it ends up on school lunch trays (laying the foundation for this nation's obesity problem in my opinion.) And economists have said dairy producers are losing an average of $3 per cow per day. Pork Producers.
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100 Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., product that comes from an animal ). The theory is sound.
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100 Soccer Player Kicks Owl on Field?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
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? Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Video and desultory apology here. Thanks for visiting!
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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter
Animal Person
APRIL 7, 2009
In other words, horses, like pigs and cows and chickens, are commodities whose worth has a dollar value to people, and we should be doing what we can do maximize that dollar value. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Not approving the institutionalized slaughter of the horses we claim to hold so dear lowers that value.
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100 On Teaching Children
Animal Person
AUGUST 19, 2009
For me, the focus on culture and tradition is basically an excuse for "anything goes" when it comes to animals. I wonder how much they learn about the animals other cultures eat. (In The site says food production factories are included , but I doubt that means those involving the slaughter of animals.). One is male.
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100 On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day
Animal Person
AUGUST 3, 2009
Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com , in which Rep. David Scott (D-Ga), who is the chairman of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture draws a line in the sand regarding the animals we use and how we use them. Translation? Let the games begin.
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