Critter News

MARCH 4, 2010

This lady is breeding tiny pet pigs that can live up to 11 years. And who will suffer? Tags: Stupid pigs companion animals. People are buying them like crazy, which means.eventually people will start dumping them like crazy. The animal shelters who have to find them homes at the expense of other animals. Thanks lady!

Pigs 100

Pigs Companion Animal Pets Shelters 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. Clones themselves can suffer a range of painful conditions, including malformed organs and gigantism. Many die in the womb or soon after birth.

Breeding Stock 100

Breeding Stock Farm Animal Farmed Animals Welfare 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Consider some of the victories: On November 5th, 2002, more than two and a half million Floridians voted "Yes" on Amendment 10 to amend the state constitution and prohibit the use of gestation crates , narrow metal cages where breeding pigs are kept for most of their lives. The full text of the amendment is available here.

Factory 40

Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Known breeding localities are now limited to only a few of the islands in the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Antigua/Barbuda. Between 1985 and 1991, the ducks suffered a further drastic decline with fewer than 100 birds estimated from Grand Cayman.

Antigua and Barbuda 220

Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 220