Critter News
JULY 3, 2010
To me, it's another example of the Humane Society's growing savvy and clout in the US. From the Associated Press. Animal welfare groups led by the Humane Society of the United States have agreed to abandon a fall ballot issue against animal cruelty as part of a deal with state farm groups brokered by Gov.
Critter News
JUNE 28, 2009
How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. From the Clemson press release. Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. Crowded and filthy conditions mean suffering for hens. But it's not just about the hens.it's about the money.
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Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
Below is a press release about the mailing. The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 30, 2009
To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. In 2008, the FDA issued its second limit on the use of cephalosporins in cows, pigs, and chickens, citing the importance of cephalosporin drugs for treating disease in humans.
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