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More Clarity About Family Farms

Animal Person

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. I work with the hogs every day, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with gestation crates,” he said. Irv Bell's farm is a family farm.

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Cute of the Day: Baby Bongo

4 The Love Of Animals

The gestation period for this species is 9 to 9 ½ months. Cute of the Day: Baby Bongo originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 28, 2009. Tags: cute animal photos. Busch Gardens cares for the endangered Eastern Mountain subspecies of bongo. PHOTO: Matt Marriott/Busch Gardens.

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Cute of the Day: baby giraffes

4 The Love Of Animals

From the press release: A giraffe’s gestation period is approximately 15 months, and the new babies will nurse for about one year. You can view these amazing animals from the Serengeti Express or on a Serengeti Safari, an open-truck tour of the plain during which you can hand-feed the reticulated giraffe.

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Cute of the Day: All Legs Baby!

4 The Love Of Animals

The duo will join the other animals on the Serengeti Plain in a few months. A giraffe’s gestation period is approximately 15 months, and the new baby will nurse for about one year. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on April 23, 2010. Tags: cute animals cute of the day. Cute of the Day: All Legs Baby!

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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us

Animal Person

Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others.