Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.)
Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2008
It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. Investigators from Compassion in World Farming found 80 per cent of farms across five European countries engaging in illegal practices such as barren pens and routine tail-docking. Tags: UK europe spain pigs factory farm.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Birders know that the pairing of farms and birds represents more than mere bucolic romance – it’s a match borne out of a real avian dependence on these man-made landscapes. Once brewed, saison would be laid down for use during the hot summer months, when a farming household would be much too occupied with fieldwork for making beer.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Nestled right in the middle of Europe, we have a little bit of everything, a nice cross section of Europe’s avifauna. It is not unusual to drive by a farm building and see a bunch of Greater Rheas on the farm’s fenced-in pasture next to sheep or goats. Germany is underrated as a birding destination.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
and Europe. In the 1950s, Soviet scientists set up an experiment on a farm outside the city of Novosibirsk to understand how animals were domesticated. To investigate why the kids made this counter intuitive mistake, the scientists rigged the cups to wires and then lowered them over the toy.
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2018
I’m not French, and I don’t follow football, but I generally don’t pass up an opportunity investigate holiday drinking traditions. The chicken, which the ancient Egyptians called “the bird that gives birth everyday”, was introduced to Europe by the fifth century B.C., I suspect I won’t be the only one drinking French wine this weekend.
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