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

AUGUST 28, 2009

Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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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. The writer is Jennifer Fearing, the CHIEF ECONOMIST for the Humane Society.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

Again, thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this update on California's proposition 2. California’s Proposition 2 is not solely about the California egg business but is also about the egg industry’s national survival, warned Gene Gregory at the annual legislative meeting of United Egg Producers (UEP).

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

on Prop 2 charges that the United Egg Producers (UEP), the No on 2 campaign, and its donors are concealing out-of-state contributions to the political campaign against Prop 2 , in clear violation of California campaign finance laws. Tags: eggs california factory farm agribusiness.

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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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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2012

And, this happened in Fresno County which is in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The statement purports to describe how the fire, which heavily damaged 14 tractors and several cattle-hauling trailers, was set and says the attack was aimed at "the horrors of factory farming." I grew up there. Full story here at the Fresno Bee.

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Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

These family-friendly events are an opportunity for those concerned with the cruel and horrific practices of factory farming to take a stand in support of compassion for animals and raise awareness about the mistreatment of animals raised for food. For more information, please visit farmsanctuary.org.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

I am a firm supporter of reforming factory egg farming. This short article reports that Vancouver, BC is considering a measure similar to Prop 2 in California, but there are concerns amongst advocates of the poor. Tags: proposition 2 eggs factory farm food chickens. Not everyone has that luxury.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Proposition 2 will end some of the more horrendous practices of factory farming in California.

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Critter News

JULY 10, 2009

I grew up in the Central Valley of California and my mother owns a home there in Gustine. I've always known that the Central Valley is one of the poorer areas of California. And of course, let's not discuss factory farms down there. Tags: california. This is not totally animal-related, but I'll share anyway.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana. Another is California Condor in the Grand Canyon.). That trip resulted in 88 lifers in limited birding.

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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

JUNE 12, 2012

Modern farms (so-called factory farms), for example, raise animals in unnatural conditions. Quite the contrary, just as would be true in the case of my son, what we should say is that part of the harm done to these animals by factory farming is that they do not know this. (

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

Especially because animals are made to suffer in the pursuit of human purposes—in the name of "efficient" factory farming, for example, or in pursuit of scientific knowledge—the utilitarian injunction to count their suffering and to count it equitably must strike a responsive moral chord. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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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

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 I have visited many of the grotesque factory farms that now corrupt our rural landscapes.

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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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2020

California Gull – Larus californicus. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. California Thrasher – Toxostoma redivivum. old angel factory area. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis. Ring-billed Gull – Larus delawarensis. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. 22 Dec 2019.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

The cows are walking around green fields, similar to those in the criminally misleading California cows commercials. And they certainly wouldn't hurt anybody; that's what those big factory farms do that aren't owned by families. Yes, factory farms are the stuff of nightmares for nonhuman animals. But so are family farms.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2019

24898 California 89, Burney, California, US (41.013, -121.65). California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis. old angel factory area. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. 28 May 2019.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2019

California Gull – Larus californicus. old angel factory area. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis. Leeds Castle Park. 27 Feb 2019. Mew Gull – Larus canus. 01 Jan 2019. Ring-billed Gull – Larus delawarensis. 01 Jan 2019. 23 Feb 2019.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. OWD factory area – US-NY-Tupper Lake-Adirondack Park – 44.2351x-74.4676. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. California Gnatcatcher – Polioptila californica. 26 Mar 2017. 04 Jan 2017.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2019

California Gull – Larus californicus. old angel factory area. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis. (Edogawa Ward–Kasai Rinkai Park / Kasai Kaihin Park). 19 Mar 2019. Mew Gull – Larus canus. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. 23 Feb 2019. 01 Jan 2019.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

old angel factory area. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. Durand-Eastman Park–Zoo Rd. 04 Jan 2019. Rufous-winged Woodpecker – Piculus simplex. 05 Jan 2019. Golden-olive Woodpecker – Colaptes rubiginosus. 26 Jan 2019. Northern Flicker – Colaptes auratus. 01 Jan 2019. 15 Jan 2019. 04 Jan 2019.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

Because we have ARK2000, our 2,300-acre sanctuary in San Andreas, California, we were happy to be able to help. &#. Pat Derby, President and Founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, said, “Animal Defenders International contacted PAWS last year about providing a permanent home for the African lions remaining in Bolivia.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2019

California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. old angel factory area. California Gull – Larus californicus. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis. Ridgefield NWR–River ‘S’ Unit. 01 Jan 2019. American Kestrel – Falco sparverius. Ridgefield NWR–River ‘S’ Unit.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2016

old angel factory area. old angel factory area. California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. old angel factory area. California Gnatcatcher – Polioptila californica. California Thrasher – Toxostoma redivivum. Cinchona Eucalyptus. 14 May 2016.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. old angel factory area. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. California Gnatcatcher – Polioptila californica. California Thrasher – Toxostoma redivivum. Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2016

old angel factory area. old angel factory area. California Gnatcatcher – Polioptila californica. California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. California Thrasher – Toxostoma redivivum. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2016

California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. old angel factory area. California Gnatcatcher – Polioptila californica. California Thrasher – Toxostoma redivivum. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis. Great Curassow – Crax rubra.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. old angel factory area. California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. California Gnatcatcher – Polioptila californica. California Thrasher – Toxostoma redivivum. Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden.

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