Critter News

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

It's all part of a campaign to cut carbon emissions. Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service. Some suggestions are likely to be controversial with patients' groups, especially attempts to curb meat eating and car use.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. If you live in the UK, please urge Jim Fitzpatrick, Minister for Animal Welfare, to make the right choice for UK chickens and quash the squash, by sending an email via our campaign website at Quash the Squash.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

"While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." Interestingly, the campaigns of happy meaters are acknowledged for perhaps being somewhat of a scam with the next sentence. Potent if symbolic?

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

John Carmody | Campaigns Director | Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) Tel: 087-2391646 | Intl' +353-87-2391646 | Email: arancampaigns@eircom.net Website: www.ARAN.ie "Fighting Animal Abuse Across Ireland" Please include all previous correspondence when replying! Please be sure to check out ARAN.ie

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 23, 2010

On December 20th, Americans voted online to raise funds for five national pet-related charities. To tap into Americans’ desire to give back, the “$1 Million in ONE Day” campaign, which celebrates Purina ONE®’s newest product beyOnd™, kicked off in New York City with actor Josh Lucas.

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