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Factory Farming and Latin American Devastation

Critter News

Here is an interesting 10 minute documentary about the effect of growing cheap animal feed in Latin America for European factory farms and how it effects the environment and people. Tags: factory farm.

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CBS News Runs Series on Factory Farms

Critter News

Katie Couric did a story on the use of antibiotics on factory farms in the US and the potential harm to humans. Of course, the question remains as to whether these animals should be in these factory farming conditions in the first place, regardless of antibiotics' use. This occurred a week or so ago.

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm.

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More Regulation Needed for Factory Farm Waste

Critter News

They've issued a report that throws a negative light on the EPA trying to ELIMINATE EVEN MORE REGULATION of factory farms. Some huge livestock farms produce more raw waste than cities as large as Philadelphia or Houston. Tags: EPA environment factory farm us. Deregulation is EVERYWHERE.

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HBO Documentary on Factory Farm Premiers March 16th

Critter News

Called Death on a Factory Farm, the documentary shows animal cruelty on a hog farm in Ohio. You can read about it here.

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First-Ever Conference to End Factory Farming

Critter News

This sounds wonderful. It will be in Arlington, VA at the end of October. Someday, if it becomes an annual event, I hope I can go.

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HBO Special on Factory Farming

Creature Talk

Last night HBO premiered a show called Death on a Factory Farm. Viewer discretion advised on the clip below… Tags: Animal Cruelty Animal Rights Animal Welfare Factory Farming Farmed Animals animal suffering gestation crates pigs videos. This is a small segment. Has anyone else seen it?

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FDA Recommends Banning Antibiotics from Feed

Critter News

Not the solution or end to factory farming, but if big ag can't rely on antibiotics, then they may have to rethink the filthy conditions of factory farms. Tags: antibiotics farm animal welfare factory farm. Animals would get sick much easier, possibly affecting the bottom line of profit above all.

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Factory Farming

Animal Ethics

I agree with Nicholas Kristof that factory farms will eventually be banned by law. I also agree that it will be a good thing. Addendum: Here are comments on Kristof's column.

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Send Obama a Message About Factory Farming

Critter News

The Humane Society makes it easy right here.

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Factory Farming

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about factory farming. I have added the Factory Farm Map to the blogroll.

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Death on a Factory Farm

Animal Ethics

You can find out tonight by watching HBO's new documentary, "Death on a Factory Farm." Death on a Factory Farm" chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. Ever wonder how the animals you eat are treated before they become your dinner?

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Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation

Critter News

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.)

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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being.

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Are Farm Animals Usually Killed in a Humane Manner?

Critter News

However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria. I highly recommend Farm Sanctuary's issue page.short and to the point.) There are probably no happy animals in factory farming (ie. Factory farming is not conducive to quick, clean, and painless kills.

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More Alleged Abuse At Iowa Egg Farms

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Tags: animal abuse eggs farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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Undercover Animal Rights Investigator Interviewed

Critter News

I admire these people tremendously, whether they go undercover on a factory farm or a research institute. Tags: animal abuse undercover investigation animal rights factory farm. This is very important work and an enlightening, though short, piece. I could never do what they do. I don't have the guts.

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"Happy Cows" Campaign in California Under Fire

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California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!

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Is Cheap Meat Endangering Our Lives?

Critter News

Very interesting opinion piece about how factory farms facilitate the rapid spread of viruses into the food supply. We know that bird flu developed in the world's vast poultry farms. And we know that pumping animal feed full of antibiotics in factory farms has given us a new strain of MRSA. From the Independent.

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Proposition 2 Poll

Critter News

on Prop 2 campaign reports a tidal wave of voter and donor support from Californians backing the effort to stop the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals on industrial factory farms. Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Chief economist? That's so cool!

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Farm Sanctuary Wary about Tom Vilsack for USDA

Critter News

I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry. Tags: Obama USDA farm animal welfare factory farm us agribusiness.

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More Humane Method of Killing Chickens?

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Tags: meat PETA farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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Baby Chicks Ground Up

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Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm.

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Michigan to Follow California on Farm Animal Welfare?

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Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

Critter News

For 25 years, Farm Sanctuary has relied on the Walk to support its mission to protect farm animals from cruelty and inspire change in the way society views and treats farm animals.

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More Clarity About Family Farms

Animal Person

Irv Bell's farm is a family farm. It's also a factory farm. The marketing of an operation of breeding and slaughtering sentient nonhumans as a family farm (here, Bell straddles the line) is supposed to trigger some kind of compassion for the humans. And all of those are implicit in "farm."

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Pork Industry Moving into Defensive Mode

Critter News

It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a Factory Farm." Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said.

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Investigation Reveals Cruel Treatment of Pigs in Europe

Critter News

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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Prop 2 Passes in California

Critter News

4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. Prop 2 requires that factory farms provide enough space for animals to stand up, turn around and extend their limbs. From the campaign website : (Nov.

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Did Swine Flu Outbreak Start at an Industrial Hog Farm?

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Tags: Swine Flu factory farm.

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Big Ag Fighting Back with PR

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Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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BOCA to Stop Using Eggs by End of 2009

Critter News

By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages. This brings us one step closer to ending intense confinement of hens in factory farms. Tags: battery hens eggs farm animal welfare. They are striking a blow against the cruel egg industry.

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Your Tax Dollars at Work Building Iraqi Feedlots

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Tags: feedlots economic development iraq factory farm agribusiness.

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On "That's Why We Don't Eat Animals"

Animal Person

And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn't eat factory farmed animals. The significant problem with this book is that the solution to the problems posed (which begin with "On factory farms. ") could easily be some Farm Forward-endorsed small operation where many of the horrors of factory farming don't exist.

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Update on National Meat Association vs. Brown

Critter News

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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Beef Farm's Trucks Burned by Activists

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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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Vote Yes on Prop 2

Critter News

Proposition 2 will end some of the more horrendous practices of factory farming in California.

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Bo Celebrated Birthday with Veal

Critter News

Veal is especially cruel, even for factory farming, although now I think foie gras is a strong competitor. Bo Obama celebrated his birthday with a doghouse cake made out of veal. When I was still a meat-eater, the two foods I would not touch were veal and lamb. Certainly disappointed in the Obamas for such a poor choice of "cake."

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Hope for Hen Welfare

Critter News

Enactment of the bill will bring about the first federal law relating to the treatment of chickens used for food, the first federal law relating to the treatment of animals while on factory farms, and the first farmed animal protection legislation in more than 30 years.

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Egg Companies Accused of Price Collusion

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Tags: eggs factory farm agribusiness.

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Podcast Uploaded for Week Ending 12/12/09

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The Calgary Zoo is under scrutiny for yet another animal death; Convicted dog fighter Michael Vick is welcomed back to Atlanta; New Zealand is being bombarded with international protests for what many consider to be a transition to “factory farming” in Mackenzie Country; Russia bemoans that fact that it hasn't matched the US in transforming sea lions (..)

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Prop 2 Opponents Accused of Laundering Money

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Tags: eggs california factory farm agribusiness.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34). Ever, in fact.

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