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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. But federal regulators are failing to control pollution from the gigantic operations or assess health risks from the enormous quantities of manure they produce, according to congressional investigators.

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Hope for Hen Welfare

Critter News

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. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S.

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Jonathan Bennett on Revisable Morality

Animal Ethics

Have you taken the time to investigate this? Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? If you haven't, then you are suppressing your sympathies, thereby protecting your moral principles from revision. Perhaps the sympathetic impulse would be activated if people saw how their meat is produced. This is bad faith.

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