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. Tags: meat pigs pork farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2012

I copied the full article from the Latin American Herald Tribune. MEXICO CITY – Animal rights activists staged a protest against the sale of pets in Mexico City, urging residents to adopt dogs and other animals instead of buying them. Late on this story.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Sometimes an article has a couple of the above, as in the case of " Chinese Legal Experts Call for a Ban on Eating Cats and Dogs." Many people support this, particularly affluent types, who have become dog and cat people and now own them as "pets." Where do people get that idea? Let's just say the ban was meaningful.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 8, 2008

To the Editor: While businesses that rent dogs may be well intentioned, they’re unlikely to benefit the overall welfare of pets, and may actually do harm to the individual dogs they “rent” (“ For a Temporary Best-Friend Fix, Rent a Dog (Kibble Included) for a Day ,” news article, March 30).

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

“As an animal welfare worker (professionally or as a volunteer), you know what it feels like when you make a positive difference in the life of an animal. Article Source: [link]. This is a guest post from Cherie, and I think that it is something everyone who rescues animals needs to read. Thanks Cherie!

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov. This made me feel guilty.

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