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Hope for Hen Welfare

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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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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1

Critter News

I read the following in a book about the pharmaceutical industry by Marcia Angell (the first woman to serve as the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and currently a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School) called The Truth about the Drug Companies.

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there.

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Just Two Lessons Learned for Today

Animal Person

I think it's great, given how hostile the world is to our minority opinions and lifestyle, that there are safe places, even if those safe places have ranting as their modus operandi. Also, as the mutual fund industry disclaimer says, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." And that's fine. But say that.

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HollyWoof Gift Bags Spoil Celebrity Dogs!

4 The Love Of Animals

Front Porch Pets conclude this year’s gift bag with a perfect fit for Alicia Silverstone’s vegan lifestyle offering their 100% family farm grown sweet potato Veggie Rawhide Bichon Fries, Big Boys & Pumpkin Crunchers. Thanks to Distinctive Assets for sharing this information with us and making us drool over the HollyWoof gift bag!

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Twenty Years Ago

Animal Ethics

They’re apparently produced by the beef industry. Instead, the beef industry has gone in for nonrational persuasion. Beef, they want us to believe, is part of a healthy and happy lifestyle. 10-27-87 Tuesday. I’m troubled by certain advertisements that have recently appeared on television.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.