Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

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. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights factory farms family farms. And all of those are implicit in "farm."

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

They do appear to wish to put an end to what they believe are the worst abuses of institutionalized animal agriculture, such as gestation crates and veal crates, but that's hardly a call to end animal agriculture. Besides, is the "modern" veal crate something to be proud of? The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting !

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

And if Compassion in World Farming wanted to see if I knew of their campaigns and might want to support them, they could have easily Googled CIWF right at Animal Person, at which point they'd find: On Compassion in World Farming. Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest. On Graphic Images We DON'T See. On Egypt's Pig Cull.

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