Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.) Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness.
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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Reddit Animals
OCTOBER 10, 2022
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Critter News
OCTOBER 17, 2009
The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey. The group was formed to protest the activities of Huntingdon Life Sciences in Franklin Township, N.J.
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 6, 2009
The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.”
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 14, 2009
I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2011
The National Trust of the Cayman Islands describes the success story as follows, “Willlie grows fruit and vegetables and raises pigs, and he noticed that the ducks were nibbling at the pig food. Willie Ebanks, at Hutland, Northside, in Grand Cayman. So he began to put out extra feed for the birds.
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