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Pheasant Stocking an Unfortunate Waste of Money

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Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters !

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. Ostrich farming – A review and feasibility study of opportunities in the EU. Each of these ‘families’ consists of a single mating pair and 1-5 ‘helpers’ who assist in raising the young. Sleep in ostrich chicks.

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On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux

Animal Person

The voices of Jim Vandersluis and Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary were especially poignant, and the anguish in their faces--in their eyes--jumps off the screen as they explain how and when it hit them that the business of raising goats for milk requires surrendering the babies to be slaughtered. For all of us.

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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

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The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. Berman said all milk products - everything from cheese to butter - got more expensive.

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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"

Animal Person

We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). So, I thought you could be interested in helping us to raise the funds. Thanks a lot.

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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

In " Food for the Soul ," Kristof once again yearns for the farm of his childhood which, for him, had "soul." What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. The animals were still bred and raised for slaughter, but evidently in some kind of soulful way we don't really hear about.

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day.