Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. This is really interesting. I certainly didn't.

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Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle. Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

It's even got Chuck Jolley from the Cattle Network riled up. Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre. Bottom line: If you’re running a business where you allow the kinds of shortcuts that let animal abuse happen, please sell it and leave the industry now. Find another line of work. It will be too late.

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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. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm us. The plaintiffs plan to pressure the NJDA to abandon them when the regulations are revised.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." This was my reality check for today: someone who defends animal agriculture as a tradition (i.e.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. It is estimated that the amount of grain fed to cattle and hogs in the United States in 1971 was twice that of U.S. These differences aside, is the argument valid?

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