Report: Animal health industry experiencing highly competitive labor market
AVMA News
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
animal health industry saw a higher employee turnover rate in 2022. A new report from Brakke Consulting shows more than half the U.S.
From industry to charity, the lasting legacy of Dr. Mark Morris Sr. on small animal medicine
AVMA News
JUNE 15, 2023
Hill's Pet Nutrition and the Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) are celebrating their 75th anniversary and the enduring legacy of their shared founder, Dr. Mark L. Morris Sr.
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Study: Fair pay, appreciation for work top factors in employee retention
AVMA News
MARCH 4, 2024
The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) released the “Stay, Please: Factors That Support Retention and Drive Attrition in the Veterinary Profession” study on February 16 to outline clear solutions to help practices and the veterinary industry overall improve employee retention.
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AVMA CEO addresses workforce trends
AVMA News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Speaking to animal health industry leaders this August, AVMA CEO Dr. Janet Donlin talked about the challenges and opportunities facing the veterinary profession, including the seemingly high demand for veterinary services and related calls for a midlevel practitioner position.
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Describe the Rights of Animals
Speaker: Glenn Koepke and Steve Rotter
This webinar – coming to you from Glenn’s own backyard – discusses the importance of supply chain visibility for seasonal shipping, new product promotions, and holiday ramping in the F&B and retail industries while providing sizzling secrets to creating the juiciest meats for your barbecue.
USDA announces $15.8M in funding for disease preparedness, response
AVMA News
APRIL 11, 2023
million to 60 projects led by 38 states, land-grant universities, and industry organizations to enhance the country’s ability to rapidly respond to and control outbreaks of animal disease. Department of Agriculture is awarding $15.8
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Interesting Ads In The Wildlife Industry
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
Whenever I get my hands on a trade publication for any industry, my favorite thing to do is see what is being advertised in the magazine. Wow, when I think of all the years I spent working in a wild birds store that was meant to help people attract birds, I was in the wrong industry. Clearly the money is in dissuading birds.
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List of Animals in Africa & Endangered Species of Africa
Reddit Animals
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Africa supports roughly a quarter of the planet’s animal and plant species due to its equally diverse natural landscapes and biomes, which range from arid deserts and grasslands to tropical rainforests and ice-capped mountains. Read more about the most endangered animals in Africa.
Exposing the Pharmaceutical Industry's Interest in Animal Research
Critter News
AUGUST 10, 2009
In the United States, we are in the midst of a health care debate in which the pharmaceutical industry disguises itself as a champion of the people. Big pharma is also involved in promoting animal research for its own benefit. Big pharma is also involved in promoting animal research for its own benefit.
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Ag Industry Looks Ahead to More Animal Welfare Issues
Critter News
JANUARY 5, 2009
Another big issue gaining momentum is animal welfare. You may hate to hear about this, but I do think that the animal-raising industries are going to have to reach some compromises with the Humane Society of the U.S. Tags: farm animal welfare us agribusiness. and other advocates.”
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Bachelor's thesis on the treatment of animals during filming
Reddit Animals
AUGUST 15, 2023
Animals in films then and now: A. The history of animal filmmaking: Tracing the development of the animal film industry from its beginnings to the present day. Popularity of animal films: Analysis of trends and audience behavior towards animal films. B. C. II. IV.
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Pork Industry Moving into Defensive Mode
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. The pork industry does not make money from happy pigs, but from dead carcasses.
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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. But the seal industry doesn't care. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.
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Pork Industry Tries to Deal with Public Image
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. It's an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as intelligent creatures that could be someone's pet. And, of course, this view of farm animals is the norm.
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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry.
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100 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.) Last week, the USDA bought approximately 200 million pounds of nonfat dry milk to help the dairy industry.
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Oostvaardersplassen
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2024
The Oostvaardersplassen were supposed to be industrial land but by the time the engineers showed up with their shovels the place had transformed into the best wetland in northern Europe. The grazers are glorified farm animals, but they have been labelled by some very irresponsible people as “wild”. It is wild and very beautiful.
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California's Ag Industry Worried that State Committee will Focus on "Emotion"
Critter News
JANUARY 19, 2009
Basically, it sounds like the ag committee will be including food safety and animal welfare concerns in their discussions. The ag industry does NOT like this. Tags: california bile farming farm animal welfare agribusiness food. There is definitely a new tide in California, post Proposition 2.
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100 Australian Animal Rights Campaign to Help Calves
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2011
ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. Animals Australia has a video on its website showing calves being roughly dragged off utes and thrown to the ground. Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now.
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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals
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. Most animals in the U.S. I certainly didn't.
Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1
Critter News
JUNE 12, 2010
This is a continuation of an earlier post about why I question animal testing. Similar legislation permitted the NIH itself to enter into deals with drug companies that would directly transfer NIH discoveries to industry. Bayh-Dole gave a tremendous boost to the nascent biotechnology industry, as well as to big pharma.
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A Place to Look For Animal Research News
Critter News
AUGUST 12, 2009
I stumbled across this site called FiercePharma that has all kinds of news about the drug industry. Note - this company has a lot of industry news sites on a wide range of topics, so they do more then just drug company news. Tags: animal testing. I've never heard of them before.
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AVMA Reveals Itself As Apologist for Animal Research
Critter News
AUGUST 8, 2009
They have paying members that are part of the animal research industry itself. Cleverly, they also emphasize how many "animals" are saved by animal research. Wouldn't Fluffy die without all the benefits of animal testing? Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates avma.
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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?
Critter News
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe? Are animal rights organizations more effective? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing.
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Rocky & Bella, Inc. earns National Animal Supplement Quality Seal
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
recently met the National Animal Supplement Council’s nationally recognized standards after a rigorous facility audit, earning the NASC Quality Seal. The NASC is setting the standards for the pet supplement industry in quality, consistency and responsible conduct. About the National Animal Supplement Council. Bryn Mawr, Penn.—Pet
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100 On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."
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Another Disgusting Bird Mill Shut Down
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2011
How many more stories like this need to come out before it is generally recognized that this isn’t “a few bad apples&# but an endemic problem in the bird breeding industry? If you insist on owning a pet bird, at least adopt one from a shelter.
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Will Arizona Exempt Animal Testing from Cruelty Laws?
Critter News
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
This is all about making the stupid state friendly to the biotech industry. Tags: animal research biotech arizona. Supposedly people either 1) believe the State has no place overseeing labs (USDA does that) and 2) bioscience is already very well-regulated. They get a huge tax break?
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Beliefs About Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2015
Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here. Note from KBJ: This post is by Mylan Engel.
Captive Lion Industry To Be Banned In South Africa
Reddit Animals
MAY 10, 2021
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52 Farm Animal Welfare Fight Heats Up in Ohio
Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. The Humane Society and other groups oppose it as a power grab by big agriculture to prevent another Proposition 2 (the initiative passed last year in California to improve standards for farm animal care.) It's an issue to follow though.
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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2009
I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. And, at this point, I'd rather have oceans with healthy fisheries for the seafood industry than those without any fisheries left at all. Tags: oceans marine animals. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. But I may not find one.
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Visit the Arenal Observatory Lodge and Spa
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. The lodge’s unique geotopographic positioning among the foothills that join the Caribbean lowlands to the cloud forests of Monteverde helps create important connectivity for the dispersal of several plant and animal species.
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153 Chinese Milk Sickens Animals Too
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Apparently, tainted Chinese milk is sickening animals as well. The animals, at at Hangzhou Zoo near Shanghai, developed kidney stones after being fed milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. Chinese media report that the animals had been fed on milk powder made by Sanlu Group for more than a year.
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100 Animal Diseases Poised to Spread to Humans
Critter News
JANUARY 11, 2010
The world is facing a growing threat from new diseases that are jumping the human-animal species barrier as a result of environmental disruption, global warming and the progressive urbanisation of the planet, scientists have warned.
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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry. Each decade of the 20th century is then explored, taking a close look at the development of wild bird feeding as an industry and a hobby, grounding trends within larger world events. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8
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Check Out Outbirding with Field Guides
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. As birds aren’t the only compelling critters we encounter when afield, some episodes showcase other animals such as marmosets, rattlesnakes, and scorpions, and we even have an iNaturalist tutorial.
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British Center Working On Animal Replacement in Research?
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2009
The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research). Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical research.
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Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2009
The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.
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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us
Animal Person
MAY 30, 2009
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.
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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
In addition to these changes in classification and distribution, there are larger issues that may play a role in the overall future of the Galápagos as a protected area; conservationists are facing increasing pressure from the tourism industry and the international fishing industry.
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Royal Decree Issued in Spain Over Animal Welfare
Critter News
JUNE 10, 2011
But some industry experts doubt Spain, a nation which has an unemployment rate above 20% and a stagnant economy, can afford to pay out €300m to farmers. Others have suggested that the amount of money allocated would only be enough to assist half the Spanish egg industry to convert.
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100 Why Justice for Animals Is the Social Movement of Our Time
Animal Ethics
APRIL 19, 2016
"There is no longer dispute among serious scientists that humans aren’t the only animals who have the capacity to suffer physically and mentally. Elephants, great apes, orcas, dogs, cats, and many other animals can experience depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and compulsive disorders.
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Animal Health Care is Part of the Bottom Line
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. The pig industry, says Dr MacDougald, is marked by generally poor production and financial analysis.
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