Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane". Tags: seal hunters.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As the quarterly campaign finance period closed today, the YES! 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.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

From the campaign website : (Nov. 4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. on Prop 2 campaign. Tags: proposition 2. Proposition 2 has been passed in California. As of 11 PM PST, Prop 2 was leading 62% to 38%.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 26, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Given the abundant literature on conflict of interest in the academy, and given that knowledge is routinely used to promote special interests and popular interests over the public interest, maybe we should monitor our educational institutions at least as much as governmental ones.

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

If so, campaign to ban the rodeo, for heaven's sake! Just be honest about your goal and campaign for it! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Will the VHS support the rodeo if calf-roping is banned? That's what the ad would make me think. Is calf-roping some kind of low-hanging fruit and just the beginning?

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. Livestock don’t contribute to campaigns, but agribusiness does. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. In my opinion, the crux of the question touches on what is “humane.”

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