Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. Do the people who are so upset about the pig cull in Egypt realize that the pig cull happens every day, all around the world?

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Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. 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

APRIL 24, 2009

The pig industry, says Dr MacDougald, is marked by generally poor production and financial analysis. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. This means poor assessment of ROI {Return on Investment} for interventions and little focus on opportunity cost. These pigs are simply raw materials.

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Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

Either way, I hate these incredibly intelligent animals being "harvested" as "product." It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths. Tags: ivory africa CITES poaching china elephants.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I thought: What if those were women, ears tagged, imprisoned in some metal contraption that made it easier for the man behind them to inseminate them. Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide." Their minds don't whirl and scream with the injustice of sentient beings enslaved and treated as units of production.

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