Critter News
APRIL 1, 2009
The animal is well-treated during its life in terms of having space to roam, living free of fear and abuse, and being well-fed in clean conditions. In other words, the proverbial happy farm animal. However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria.
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2009
No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. Farm animals used for food and fiber or for food and fiber research are not regulated under the AWA.”.Unlike
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Critter News
OCTOBER 26, 2010
asphyxiated); they die from lack of oxygen, or anoxia, which is a painless process. CAK eliminates the numerous animal welfare, economic, and worker-safety issues associated with electric immobilization: * With CAK, birds are dead before they are removed from their crates, shackled, bled, and scalded in defeathering tanks.
Animal Ethics
JULY 15, 2009
We can thank factory farming for yet another antibiotic-resistant supergerm: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). All evidence points to factory farms. Factory farms are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where animals are raised intensively and permanently confined in warehouses and sheds.
Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2012
At issue was whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed, and sold for human consumption preempted -- or nullified -- California Penal Code 599f. The FMIA expressly preempts such a state law.".
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2008
There is also little dispute concerning the following premise: (4) The animals that become that meat are reared in ways that subject them to intense pain and suffering for much of their lives. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.
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