Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

Another big issue gaining momentum is animal welfare. The recent passing of a proposition in California to strictly manage how laying chickens are kept serves notice, he says. He adds that this is more than just a matter of voter education, given the $8 million spent by the California poultry industry fighting the proposition.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2012

California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!

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Critter News

JANUARY 17, 2012

California is #1 again.yay! Here's a way to find out how your state ranks. Washington State, where I currently live, is #6! At the bottom.(drum drum roll please) South Dakota!!!

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

At issue was whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed, and sold for human consumption preempted -- or nullified -- California Penal Code 599f. The FMIA expressly preempts such a state law.".

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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. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.

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Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2012

To offset yesterday's crappy news about California, here's good news from the EU! Emeritus Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph in Ontario and the President of the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada. Full article on Food Safety News. As of Jan. As of Jan. egg producers an estimated £400 million ($613 million).

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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 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

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Legendary game show host Bob Barker says it will cost $200,000 to move three elephants from the Toronto Zoo to a California sanctuary, and he doesn't mind paying for it himself. Toronto city council voted in October to move the elephants to a facility run by PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society) near Galt, Calif., called ARK 2000.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

Tags: proposition 2 california farm animal welfare avma.

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Critter News

JANUARY 29, 2009

Tags: proposition 2 california humane society farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. To the Editor: The American Veterinary Medical Association urges California voters to think twice before voting on Proposition 2. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2012

And, this happened in Fresno County which is in the San Joaquin Valley of California. It does nothing but make the targets more wedded to their positions and it garners sympathy from the general public. I grew up there. Believe me, they are NOT helping their cause at all. Full story here at the Fresno Bee.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 3, 2007

Lawmakers, animal control officers and animal welfare organizations need to work together and delve into the origins of shelter subgroups—such as stray, feral or surrendered pets—to address the issues that bring them to the shelter.

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Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

Farm Sanctuary’s shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for nearly 1,000 rescued farm animals. About Farm Sanctuary Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, promotes legislative, policy, and individual lifestyle changes to help farm animals.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

Dr. Jenni is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, where she has taught for the past 18 years. (who has occasionally posted comments on this blog) will present a lecture entitled “The Best Kept Environmental Secrets: How We Can Hurt or Help the Planet Every Day.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.

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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. To the Editor: Re “ A Farm Boy Reflects ” (column, July 31): Hats off to Nicholas D.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. 22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. Lawrence S. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

I guess small protests like NARN's seem futile when compared to the overwhelming issue of animal welfare, but you have to think that a number of small protests over time can have a large cumulative impact. Tags: animal cruelty california foie gras food.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. With all of her photos, she follows NANPA ethical guidelines, putting the welfare of birds and other wild animals ahead of any image. . The next time I saw Puck, she was bounding for the crawl space with that sweet Mourning Dove in her teeth. I was mortified.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

I actually read one headline asking whether this was the beginning of the end of commercial farming in California. Tags: california farm animal welfare us agribusiness. A bit of an overreaction I think. But to big ag, it's just another step on a slippery slope started by the passage of Proposition 2.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

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. Because we have ARK2000, our 2,300-acre sanctuary in San Andreas, California, we were happy to be able to help. &#.

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