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Report: Animal health industry experiencing highly competitive labor market

AVMA News

animal health industry saw a higher employee turnover rate in 2022. A new report from Brakke Consulting shows more than half the U.S.

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We Want to Help the Birding Tourism Industry

10,000 Birds

With a worldwide pandemic still raging the tourism industry has taken a massive hit. We realize this is a small thing but we figure if enough people do enough small things we can make a big difference in the recovery of an industry near and dear to our hearts. Get writing!

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A veterinarian’s role in pet after-death care

AVMA News

The pet aftercare industry remains largely unregulated, and veterinarians are often the only source of information that pet owners have when choosing pet aftercare providers. There are many considerations for a veterinarian when it comes to handling pet remains and interacting with the pet owner during this sensitive time.

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Consolidation of Egg Industry

Critter News

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.

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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

Critter News

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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Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation

Critter News

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. If you complied with the law, you wouldn't look like such jerks!

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US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry

Critter News

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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Interesting Ads In The Wildlife Industry

10,000 Birds

Whenever I get my hands on a trade publication for any industry, my favorite thing to do is see what is being advertised in the magazine. Wow, when I think of all the years I spent working in a wild birds store that was meant to help people attract birds, I was in the wrong industry. Clearly the money is in dissuading birds.

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Pork Industry Moving into Defensive Mode

Critter News

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. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.

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Industrious House Wren

10,000 Birds

A friend of mine has this contraption called a Mosquito Magnet that uses carbon dioxide to attract and vacuum up mosquitoes from his yard. It works very well. He then takes all the dead mosquitos and puts them on a tray feeder for his feeder birds to eat. I’m not sure how many actually do, but it’s a nice idea.

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Exposing the Pharmaceutical Industry's Interest in Animal Research

Critter News

In the United States, we are in the midst of a health care debate in which the pharmaceutical industry disguises itself as a champion of the people. The author also accuses Understanding Animal Research of being a UK front group for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Ag Industry Looks Ahead to More Animal Welfare Issues

Critter News

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.

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Captive Lion Industry To Be Banned In South Africa

Reddit Animals

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Center for Tobacco, Alcohol and Restaurant Industries Resends Press Release About PETA

Critter News

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. You can read about these people here. Phil Defranco did the same thing on his youtube video. Hopefully he will realize his mistake as well.

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California's Ag Industry Worried that State Committee will Focus on "Emotion"

Critter News

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.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

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. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Below is a press release about the mailing. Another went out last Friday.

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Did Swine Flu Outbreak Start at an Industrial Hog Farm?

Critter News

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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Responsible Birding in Colombia with Jaguarundi Travel

10,000 Birds

We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. 10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

10,000 Birds

We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Impact of COVID on Uganda Bird Guides : As it has happened to the avitourism industry globally, Uganda was not an exception. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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Heart-warming story about 1 of only 9 primate sanctuaries in the US and their mission to retire as many monkeys from labs, the entertainment industry, and the pet trade as possible

Reddit Animals

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Devils Backbone Brewing Company Vienna Lager

10,000 Birds

He traveled across Europe, visiting great brewing centers like Munich, London, and Scotland, diligently studying the latest in brewing industry developments, particularly in Industrial Age Britain, where brewing technologies and methods had notably outpaced those found on the Continent.

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Collective Arts Brewing: All Together IPA

10,000 Birds

But I figured I’d atone for my current dereliction by briefly highlighting a new bird-themed beer made by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario to support the hospitality industry during the worldwide public health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The beer is a New England-style IPA at 6.6%

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Industrial Agriculture

Animal Ethics

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.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

10,000 Birds

Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. At the same time, 50% of the Congo Basin forest has now been allocated for logging and this region loses close to 1.5

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Wet Birds

10,000 Birds

Naturally, being in the extended service industry (consulting), I want to help. Recently, many people have been telling me that they are very tired of photos of dry birds. So, here’s a collection of wet birds. A wet Grey-eyed Bulbul (Xishuangbanna, China). A wet African Pygmy Kingfisher (Mkuze, South Africa).

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Come to Brazil with Boute Expeditions

10,000 Birds

We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. 10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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Mad Cow Disease Appears in California

Critter News

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. billion industry in California 2008 and fifth among the state’s top 20 commodities. The state also hosts 1.84

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of March 2020?

10,000 Birds

Now we are living it as schools, workplaces, and entire industries shut down–hopefully temporarily–under the cloud of COVID-19. Had you ever even heard the term “social distancing” until the last month? Do you know what is still open, though? The wild, where people are few and the birds abundant.

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A few interesting birds seen at Nanhui, Shanghai in 2019

10,000 Birds

Excluding some of the obvious stars which I have shown you in earlier posts, some of the entries are below.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

10,000 Birds

The result: the distribution of the chemicals in the muscles of the sparrows followed the order landfill>urban>industrial parks>suburban>rural>remote, indicating that the emissions were associated with landfills, urbanization, and industrialization.

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

In addition to these changes in classification and distribution, there are larger issues that may play a role in the overall future of the Galápagos as a protected area; conservationists are facing increasing pressure from the tourism industry and the international fishing industry.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2020)

10,000 Birds

Responsible social distancing has savaged the travel and tourism industries, which means that all of our favorite birding lodges, vendors, and guides have suffered and continue to struggle as we enter 2021. Considering all that, I’m sure you’ll agree that a new year can’t come soon enough!

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Russia Bans Canadian Seal Imports!

Critter News

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.

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Visit Guatemala with Birding Expeditions

10,000 Birds

We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. 10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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Royal Decree Issued in Spain Over Animal Welfare

Critter News

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.

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Isolation, a.k.a. Business as Usual

10,000 Birds

Ears filled with birdsong and no industrial hum? Many moons ago, when I used to work in the (supposedly) booming petrochemical industry in Trinidad, most of my time was actually spent birding. Sign me up! Going birding is even more of a no-brainer now than before.

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Australian Animal Rights Campaign to Help Calves

Critter News

ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. However, he said some practices shown in the Animals Australia video were not condoned by the industry, "dragging them off trucks and things like that". Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now.

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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

10,000 Birds

Now, that is an attitude I have to respect, just ask any former worker in car and other industries whose management went after the short-term profit and moved production to Asia, and you’ll know why. Swarovski, categorically rejected the advice and decided: factory stays in Austria, and the prices will only go up!

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Hope for Hen Welfare

Critter News

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Check out Birding Experiences in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. 10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry. Each decade of the 20th century is then explored, taking a close look at the development of wild bird feeding as an industry and a hobby, grounding trends within larger world events. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8

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Woodland for sale

10,000 Birds

As of next month I am assuming that the airline industry will have no further use for my services and a bleak outlook looms. On the other side of the coin, I will have a lot of time on my hands and 8.5 acres of ancient woodland.

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Wrapping Up Birding Tourism February

10,000 Birds

We did this to help our favorite industry come back, to some small degree, from the ravages of COVID. We here at 10,000 Birds dedicated the month of February to highlighting a variety of birding tourism companies, destinations, and guides. It was a fun month with posts from places as varied as Greece and Uganda, Costa Rica and India.

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