Critter News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

A coalition of animal protection groups consisting of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Farm Sanctuary, and the Humane Farming Association (HFA), intervened in the case to ensure that the interests of animals and the public were represented.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

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. Further improvements in mandated minimum space for hens occur later in the agreement.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

Again, thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this update on California's proposition 2. Gregory is the president and CEO of UEP, an industry trade group. Gregory is the president and CEO of UEP, an industry trade group. Tags: california farm animal welfare factory farm us.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. Here's an example.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2012

The statement purports to describe how the fire, which heavily damaged 14 tractors and several cattle-hauling trailers, was set and says the attack was aimed at "the horrors of factory farming." He called it a terrorist action.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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