Critter News

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The inspectors found nothing wrong, but at least they responded to the issues raised by Animal Angels, based in Germany. Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare. My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2008

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. Most farms made widespread but legal use of metal cages for confining pregnant pigs.

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Critter News

MARCH 28, 2009

PETA wants to run a campaign that compares factory farming to the Holocaust. Touchy subject there in Germany. The German constitutional court has ruled that animal rights organisation PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) must end its campaign in which it draws a comparison between the Holocaust and industrial farming.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Juliane Kaminski of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, began exploring the verbal gifts of dogs when she saw a television show about a border collie named Rico–an animal that to all appearances could fetch dozens of different objects in response to their names. . They have us very well trained.

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