Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

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. Tags: animal cruelty proposition 2 cattle farm animal welfare agribusiness. How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? I certainly didn't.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

But to big ag, it's just another step on a slippery slope started by the passage of Proposition 2. As early as 2012, public schools would be prohibited from serving fish, poultry or meat that had been routinely treated with antibiotics. "We A bit of an overreaction I think.

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