Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning. Ranchers oppose the move.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

My objection is: Why do such research when you don't need to? If a person cares about what "livestock" experience on their way to becoming "meat," there is one easy, inexpensive action that person can take to make certain s/he is not a party to the various kinds and levels of suffering and injustice the animals experience.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

But today these livestock operations don’t have to be unwelcome neighbors in their communities. Recently they have invested millions of dollars into research conducted by Purdue University. Yes, concentrated animal feeding operations, or “factory farms” as you call them, are a key feature of modern agriculture.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers. billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.

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