Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2008

In one of the biggest undercover inquiries into pig-farming, CIWF visited 60 farms across five big pork-producing states, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. In 48 farms, farmers had cut the tails off pigs to stop them biting each other, despite EU rules restricting tail-docking.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

And if Compassion in World Farming wanted to see if I knew of their campaigns and might want to support them, they could have easily Googled CIWF right at Animal Person, at which point they'd find: On Compassion in World Farming. But that was back in 2006. Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest. On Graphic Images We DON'T See.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future." The pigs are being buried alive, dumped in mass graves and "covered in what appears to be quicklime where, they endure a slow and agonising death." Yes, I sent the protest. Here's my question: What is "a humane future?"

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