Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

egg industry continues to consolidate. egg industry is planning a strategic conference after the presidential election to plan for the future. The Mexican egg industry is challenged by sanitary problems, and while it recognizes animal welfare issues they are said to not currently be a concern of Mexican consumers. Don't think banks are the only ones gobbling each other up nowadays. So are egg corporations. Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information.

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Egg Industry Eggs Industry 2008 100

Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.) 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. Too bad! If you complied with the law, you wouldn't look like such jerks!

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Europe Pigs Industry Investigation 109

Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

Hard to wean people off animals when the US government is propping up the industries, and especially when so much of it ends up on school lunch trays (laying the foundation for this nation's obesity problem in my opinion.) Last week, the USDA bought approximately 200 million pounds of nonfat dry milk to help the dairy industry.

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Lamb 109

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But the seal industry doesn't care. While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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Medical Research Seals Medical Industry 109

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

The Pork Board has planned delegate meetings at the {annual Pork Industry} forum to discuss quality assurance rules including animal handling, and how much money to allocate to promote animal welfare. The pork industry does not make money from happy pigs, but from dead carcasses. It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a Factory Farm."

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Industry Transported 2009 Factory Farm 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

It's an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as intelligent creatures that could be someone's pet. The fact that this discussion warrants an article in the Des Moines Register means that there is some movement on this front and and it causes the pork industry concern. Every time I get depressed about animal issues (every other day it seems like), I see an article like this.

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Industry Turkey 2009 Pigs 109

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

The wrongness of factory farming is overdetermined. See here for one sufficient ground. By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming? Instead, it seeks to reform it. Animal rights is neither progressive nor conservative. Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians.

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Industry 2007 Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

You may hate to hear about this, but I do think that the animal-raising industries are going to have to reach some compromises with the Humane Society of the U.S. He adds that this is more than just a matter of voter education, given the $8 million spent by the California poultry industry fighting the proposition. What seems to be working better for the industry is to reach some kind of compromise before the issue goes on a ballot,” he says.

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Animal Welfare Industry Welfare California 100

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. 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. Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends!

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

Critter News

APRIL 28, 2009

According to this AP article, some are blaming Smithfield Foods, which has 8 operations in La Gloria Mexico. The company denies it. You can read all about the horrible things Smithfield Foods has done in the US in this long Rolling Stone article. I can only imagine how things are run in Mexico.

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Swine Flu Industry Farming Mexico 100

Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

It seems like every 6 months or so, the Center for Consumer Freedom, a front group for the tobacco, alcohol and restaurant industries sends out a press release about how many animals PETA allegedly kills. There are plenty of reasons to not like PETA, but the "Center for Consumer Freedom" is an industry front group who's primary purpose is to attack PETA.

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Industry PETA Groups 2009 100

Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

The ag industry does NOT like this. Basically, it sounds like the ag committee will be including food safety and animal welfare concerns in their discussions. There is definitely a new tide in California, post Proposition 2. In a move that elevated the anxiety level among grower-shippers, Darrell Steinberg, the new president pro-tem of the California state Senate, overhauled the body’s agriculture committee.

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California Emotional Industry Proposition 2 100

Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

As a way of taking the situation into your own hands and not being a part of the problem, the film's site offers you this widget: Now, I haven't seen the film, but here's the message: There's something rotten in the state of the fishing industry.

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Industry Mammals Fish 2009 130

Creature Talk

APRIL 29, 2010

The whole industry from start to finish is inhumane, and this Saturday, millions of people will be watching the Derby, betting on it, and perpetuating the cruelty inherent in it. The much-hyped Kentucky Derby will be taking place this Saturday, May 1st.

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Kentucky 2010 Horse Slaughter Inhumane 106

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Here is an essay about industrial farming

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Industry Farming 2009 40

Creature Talk

APRIL 16, 2010

And yes, I realize that sounds strange because you’d think any employer would appreciate someone with such strong ethics, but that’s not exactly how things always work in the conservative finance industry. After a 7 month hiatus from this blog, I wonder: is anyone still out there?

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Vegan 2010 Vegetarian Slaughter 52

Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The Animal Welfare Institute thinks these new rules could be a blow to the horse slaughter industry, but only if actually implemented.

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Horse Slaughter Slaughter Slaughtered Horses 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Salon has a pretty good piece up about Sarah Palin's attempt to deny protection for beluga whales all for the sake of the oil industry.

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Whales Whaling Industry Protection 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 3, 2009

Here is information about the use of antibiotics on "industrial farms

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Industry Farming 2009 40

Critter News

AUGUST 12, 2009

I stumbled across this site called FiercePharma that has all kinds of news about the drug industry. Note - this company has a lot of industry news sites on a wide range of topics, so they do more then just drug company news. If you go to the very top, there are tabs for FierceBiotechResearch and other topics. I've never heard of them before.

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Animal Research Industry Research For Animals 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

residents believe that it's wrong to kill animals for their pelts, but the pelt industry is legal. I finally read SPECIESISM , by Joan Dunayer, which was published a couple of years after ANIMAL EQUALITY , which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago.

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Speciesism 2010 Endangered Species Vivisection 166

Animal Person

DECEMBER 30, 2009

the ban happened while the industry was still operating). Thanks to Grey2kUSA and the voters of Massachusetts who put an end to live greyhound racing in the Bay State as of last Saturday night! Here 's more on how it all happened and why this particular situation was unique (i.e.,

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Massachusetts Greyhounds Industry Breeding 130

Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. But the disease has dealt a crippling blow to the industry in the past, especially when foreign countries refused to import American beef when mad cow was first uncovered in 2003. Potentially bad news for California Agriculture. Read the full story here at the LA Times.

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Cows California 2012 Nebraska 116

Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Russia and two of its neighbours have informed the World Trade Organization that they are banning the import and export of harp seal pelts – a move that animal-rights activists are celebrating as the death knell of Canada’s commercial seal industry. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry. Great news! But I'm not exactly sure why RUSSIA would ban them. The other two neighbors that banned them are Kazakhstan and Belarus).

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Russia Seals 2011 Fur Industry 116

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The only problem (for the farmers--I have a many problems with this scenario, beginning with bringing cows into the world) is that the cow milk industry is struggling along with much of the economy, and there is now a glut of cow's milk, which has driven the price down and.

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Cows New York Times Culling Unwanted 138

Critter News

JUNE 10, 2011

But some industry experts doubt Spain, a nation which has an unemployment rate above 20% and a stagnant economy, can afford to pay out €300m to farmers. Others have suggested that the amount of money allocated would only be enough to assist half the Spanish egg industry to convert. Interesting! Effective? Who knows? Here's an excerpt from Farmers Weekly Interactive.

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Spain Animal Welfare Welfare 2011 109

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. What a subject line, but it's true. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. I'd never heard of them before. I'm very impressed by their courage and tenacity.

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Egg Industry Industry Egg Farm Groups 109

Critter News

JULY 1, 2009

But forgetting, or not knowing in the first place, is what the industrial food chain is all about, the principal reason it is so opaque, for if we could see what lies on the far side of the increasingly high walls of our industrial agriculture, we would surely change the way we eat.

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Chickens Industry 2009 Tagged 100

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry.

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2010 Vivisection Speciesism Fish 136

Critter News

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

This is all about making the stupid state friendly to the biotech industry. Unbelievable, but this stupid exemption is gaining support. Supposedly people either 1) believe the State has no place overseeing labs (USDA does that) and 2) bioscience is already very well-regulated. What next? They get a huge tax break?

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

I used to work for a seafood company and my current work still brings me in contact with the industry. This is a good thing. We've been overfishing the bluefish tuna to near-extinction along with many other species. Greedy, anti-government, and anti-regulation monstrosities.

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France Industry Marine Life 2009 100

Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. This requirement would at least relieve the worst of the production horrors that are common in the industry now.

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New York Times New York Eggs Proposition 2 71

Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Susan e-mailed after receiving RPA's news release on the organization's recent mailing to the governors of all 50 states about our land-grant universities' (LGUs') meat-industry problem. Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends!

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Puerto Rico Responsible Policies Meat Industry Campaign 100

Critter News

JANUARY 8, 2009

This post has three graphic pictures of a baby elephant allegedly being "trained" for the entertainment industry. This is a new blog I came across called Paws4Life, The Reality of What Humans do. I'm thinking it's India?

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Elephants India Industry 2009 100

Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

Industry. Today is the launch of. I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. Also, it has the added bonus of organizing my content better than I have.

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Animal Rights Project Treadstone Rights Kazakhstan 130

Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

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). You may know Jose Valle of the International Organization for the Abolition of Animal Slavery, AnimalEquality. He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate".

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Investigation Free Range Farming Advocacy 140

Critter News

MAY 10, 2010

The industry is not as developed, but it's heading in that direction. They should fear oil spills because, I'm sorry, Canada is not the best in terms of environmental safeguards, laws or requirements. They've had oil spills before, but nowhere near the scale of the one in the Gulf of Mexico. It would therefore benefit the Canadians to prepare. As long as they allow offshore oil drilling, a massive spill is a definite possibility.

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Canada 2010 Mexico Industry 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The meat packing industry takes a single input, a steer, and produces many different final products. I'm studying for the CPA exam and am working through Becker's online course review for the business section. Here's an example of "joint costs" that says all you need to know about animals as nothing more than inputs in a manufacturing process.

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2011 Meat Industry Animal 109

Animal Person

MAY 2, 2009

Over 16,000 greyhounds are bred to supply the approximate 10,000 annually racing on British tracks and even taking into account the 4,500 re-homed by the industry’s own Retired Greyhound Trust, we are still left with a huge shortfall of ‘unaccounted’ dogs.

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Greyhounds Ireland RSPCA Speciesism 130

Animal Person

APRIL 17, 2009

It's probably not a bad place to start, but when this industry behaves in a way that undermines personal responsibility, then we've got problems and that's usually a place where people feel government intervention is warranted. We pass clean air laws, we tax the heck out of cigarettes, we sue the tobacco industry. Personal responsibility is challenged as it's not on a level playing field with what Industry wants us to believe.

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New York City New York Industry 2009 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. The industry sued California, arguing that Section 599f is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Did anyone know this was going on? The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently heard arguments in National Meat Association v.

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Meat Animal Legal Defense Fund Downers Humane Society Of The United States 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

It's about not fetishizing one species while making an industry of torturing others.

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Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming 2009 146

Critter News

AUGUST 8, 2009

They have paying members that are part of the animal research industry itself. It should be no surprise that the American Veterinary Medical Association is an apologist. Here's the organization's defense of its primate veterinarian members. Cleverly, they also emphasize how many "animals" are saved by animal research. Wouldn't Fluffy die without all the benefits of animal testing?

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Animal Research Research Industry For Animals 100