Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Proposition 2 has been passed in California. 4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. Prop 2 goes into effect in January of 2015, giving factory farms six years to shift to different housing systems.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 29, 2008

on Prop 2 campaign reports a tidal wave of voter and donor support from Californians backing the effort to stop the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals on industrial factory farms. Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Chief economist? That's so cool!

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Enactment of the bill will bring about the first federal law relating to the treatment of chickens used for food, the first federal law relating to the treatment of animals while on factory farms, and the first farmed animal protection legislation in more than 30 years.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

The California law adds an arbitrary and unscientific requirement that chickens be prohibited from touching one another or the side of any enclosure. The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 29, 2009

As the world moves toward raising the majority of animals in the unnatural setting of factory farms, it is likely that more, and worse, such pathogens will arise. What will it take for us, and our public health leaders, to question our addiction to meat and tolerance of factory farming?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ A Farm Boy Reflects ” (column, July 31): Hats off to Nicholas D. Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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