Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. The industry sued California, arguing that Section 599f is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Some of the provisions will be implemented almost immediately after enactment, such as those relating to starvation, ammonia levels, and euthanasia, and others after just a few years, including labeling and the requirement that all birds will have to have at least 67 square inches of space per bird.

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Critter News

JUNE 1, 2009

Cookson were accused of participating in an “off the books” arrangement wherein Harmon and Cookson carried out unauthorized mass euthanasias at the Tulare County, California shelter – reportedly using nonstandard and painful methods – by falsifying records to cover their actions. Sargeant, William R. Harmon, and Ron C.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

The vet setback is the latest for King County Animal Care and Control, which has come under fire in the past year for running understaffed, overcapacity shelters with high euthanasia rates.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. The bird was stripped of feathers and so badly battered that euthanasia was probable. The next time I saw Puck, she was bounding for the crawl space with that sweet Mourning Dove in her teeth. I surprised her and she dropped the bird before vaporizing again. I was mortified.

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