Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2008

I don't know how seriously to take this, or if it's just the ag industry pulling an NRA stunt (ie. 4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. The ag industry really fears that the government may start taxing them for heads of livestock because of their contribution to global warming.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., Finally, organic doesn’t mean safe.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

But today these livestock operations don’t have to be unwelcome neighbors in their communities. The pork industry has acted on its own over the last decade to solve water-discharge problems and create top-shelf manure management systems. America’s pork producers have met the environmental challenges and are proud of their achievements.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization's own report entitled Livestock's Long Shadow : "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

conservation legislation and regulation, a tool used to protect birds from irresponsible hunting, industrial intrusion and incidental take, habitat loss and pollution, and to encourage best practices by everyone, from birders to corporations. Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.

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