10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

As a result of the funding mechanisms whereby state agencies rely on hunter purchase of hunting tags to maintain operations, these bureaucracies are not going to promote predators in the face of opposition from hunters.”. This principle reaffirms that animal welfare is an integral part of modern conservation.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Quick work on the part of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), in partnership with the Humane Society of the U.S. Tags: animal abuse animal research cats North Carolina dogs PETA. This event serves as dramatic testament to what can happen when the humane community comes together to oppose cruelty," says AWI President, Cathy Liss. "We

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Trader Joe's, a national specialty grocer, offers a large range of vegan and soy products. None of the employees at my local store could offer any information concerning the welfare of the hens. Tags: eggs consumption farm animal welfare groceries. They also offer "Cage Free" eggs.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Not only did they arrange for exports, they also are accused of colluding to limit production and to increase cage sizes so that fewer hens can be kept. This is actually good for animal welfare, but goes to show that only greed will motivate these bastards to do anything.) Tags: eggs factory farm agribusiness.

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Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2009

They are testifying with Canada against an EU ban on seal products. Canadian fisheries ministry representative Garry Stenson said the hunt “is humane, well regulated and sustainable” and that new rules for the hunt were under review to strengthen inspections, monitoring and enforcement of animal welfare rules.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But can we really imagine an economic system that delivers prosperity and welfare, or is competition an unavoidable consequence of the human race? How can we, as individuals, help form a society that is both productive and resolves actual societal and environmental problems? What have the sciences to contribute - if anything at all?"

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

Animals are raw materials to process for product. This is mass production. They were simply factors of production at that time too. It’s the nature of the beast of mass production. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. I highly recommend Farm Sanctuary's issue page.short and to the point.)

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Apostol said “It is the responsibility of us, the designers and manufacturers, to bring environmental awareness to the consumer by providing more and better sustainable products and style.” Born Free USA (BFUSA) is a nationally recognized leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation. Tags: born free fur fashion.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. welfare") is the best that any of us can ever hope for, and of course what is a change in the way I kill you other than a change in the method by which you die. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e.,

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Her death on an operating table in the Bronx would help animal welfare advocates break a long-standing stalemate in Congress and push through the most significant animal-protection bill in American history. Didn't she represent the dawn of a new age of profiting from the "production" and sale of animals? Stay tuned.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The main difference is that Foer doesn't eat meat (though he does, as it turns out, eat some animal products) and he challenges the cultural assumptions that tell us that some animals are for petting and some are for eating. Tags: Books Ethics. But the net message is the same: factory farming=bad, small farms=good.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). What Jentsch is doing is counter-productive. Guess what the answer is?

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

I understand the need for critique and productive criticism within a movement. And people who say they want us to stop using animals, yet whose tactics appear to be in the service of the welfare of animals, can be called "new welfarists." In terms of language, people who eat dead bodies can be called "corpse munchers."

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism. This was my reality check for today: someone who defends animal agriculture as a tradition (i.e., we did it yesterday so we should do it today) and because there's profit in it.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

VARIETIES OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM Moral vegetarianism will be understood as the view that because of some moral principles one ought not to eat certain edible animals and perhaps animal products. On the traditional position, justification of vegetarianism was in terms of animal welfare, happiness, rights, and so on.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. Various lobby groups, world food organizations, and consumer and environmentalist groups putting pressure on meat producers to utilize these waste products to feed animals might be a much more effective way of conserving grain than vegetarianism.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com , in which Rep. However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. Translation?

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