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Hope for Hen Welfare

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Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Radlo Foods Pledging Conversion to Cage-Free Eggs

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Sometime soon, David Radlo of Radlo Foods says his sign in front of the former DeCoster Egg Farm will be coming down and all his business at the massive egg operation in Turner will come to an end. Instead, Eggland's Best says it will get classic brown eggs from other locations. Here's a link to the investigative video.

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Birds of the Northern Forest – An homage

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It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. A preliminary sketch The written part is by no means a detailed account of the species but rather a collection of a few interesting and noteworthy points about each bird or group of birds. Common Loon ( Gavia immer) This was a different artist.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.

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Baby Chicks Ground Up

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Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm. I'd never heard of them before. I'm very impressed by their courage and tenacity.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

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The summary of shared family characteristics is an important element of the Accounts, meant to help the user narrow down the baby bird identification to family group. Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed. These books are concerned with behavior. The identification guide by Paul J.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. For example, when the U.S.