Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. The Humane Society and other groups oppose it as a power grab by big agriculture to prevent another Proposition 2 (the initiative passed last year in California to improve standards for farm animal care.)

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Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Proposition 2 will end some of the more horrendous practices of factory farming in California.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2. Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs.

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Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

There is definitely a new tide in California, post Proposition 2. Basically, it sounds like the ag committee will be including food safety and animal welfare concerns in their discussions. The ag industry does NOT like this.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. Proposition 2 is a modest step that deserves voter support and extension to other states. To the Editor: Re “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty proposition 2 cattle farm animal welfare agribusiness.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Tags: proposition 2 eggs factory farm food chickens.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about California's Proposition 2. Here is a column by Gary Francione, who opposes the proposition.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Here is a Los Angeles Times story about California's Proposition 2, which passed yesterday. I'm ambivalent about the proposition. On the one hand, it improves the lives of many farm animals. On the other hand, it entrenches the idea that they may be used as mere means to human ends.

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OCTOBER 24, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about California's Proposition 2.

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JULY 12, 2010

Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law requiring that all whole eggs sold in the state conform to the provisions of Proposition 2, the humane farming law that was embraced by state voters in a landslide in 2008. In California last week, Gov.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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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. I actually read one headline asking whether this was the beginning of the end of commercial farming in California. A bit of an overreaction I think. The article is so short, I'm just posting the whole thing.

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