Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2008
The court upheld regulations permitting pig and calf confinement, the transport of ill and injured cattle, and force molting of birds. Many states exempt routine practices from their cruelty code, and the precedent-setting ruling will be used in the nationwide campaign against controversial practices.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 6, 2014
Compassionate consumers can take a stand against this cruelty by choosing vegan options. The same goes for pigs and cattle that are exploited and forced to live in substandard conditions. Chickens deserve to live humanely. That’s the least farmers can do. ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014'
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 10, 2007
The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty. They are often crammed into trucks built for cattle and pigs and subjected to starvation, exposure and abuse. The transport and subsequent slaughter of these animals is brutal.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
Consider some of the victories: On November 5th, 2002, more than two and a half million Floridians voted "Yes" on Amendment 10 to amend the state constitution and prohibit the use of gestation crates , narrow metal cages where breeding pigs are kept for most of their lives. The full text of the amendment is available here.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
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. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land.
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