Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California. It was served with veal tongue, yogurt, prosciutto, mustard ice cream and truffles. Apparently, this will happen in 8 months. I had no idea! Excerpted from The New York Times. There was even a foie gras dessert: a brownie sundae with foie gras Chantilly.

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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. It applies to breeding pigs, egg laying hens and veal calves. From the campaign website : (Nov.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

In late June, a compromise was reached in Ohio that will gradually put an end to the tiny pens used for raising veal calves and holding pregnant sows, spaces so small the animals can barely move. In California last week, Gov.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

The animals frequently are crowded together, as in the case of hogs, or kept in isolation, as in the case of veal calves. Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 97-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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