Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Laws remain grossly inadequate as do practices at our nation’s slaughterhouses,” says Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur. Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. Most animals in the U.S.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. There is an abundance of information on the web about undercover investigations, livestock conditions, slaughter procedures, etc. I highly recommend Farm Sanctuary's issue page.short and to the point.)

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

I'd love to say that this was Engber's epiphany, and that he fought for Clayton's removal to a sanctuary and is now a powerful voice against the vivisection of sentient nonhumans. (I discovered later that he'd been separated from his old cage-mate Duper for fighting.) But that's now what happened. It does not make them more or less a "tool."

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, the age of the Golden Gooney was to come to a brutal end; beginning in the late 1800′s, they were being slaughtered by the millions for their feathers at their breeding colonies. However, these islands that were predator-free sanctuaries eventually turned into ecological sinks.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals. One of the most important things about Deb's blog, Invisible Voices , is that many of the fortunate animals who end up at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary , where she volunteers, came from family farms. When it's put that way, doesn't it sound silly?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Hint for your letter: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has just returned from Nebraska’s Lillian Annette Rowe Sanctuary in Kearney, where he fell silent, entranced by the spectacle of tens of thousands of sandhill cranes rising from the braided shallows of the Platte. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres and rescue group Farm Sanctuary both want you to Adopt-A-Turkey this Thanksgiving! Says DeGeneres: “Did you know that every year between 250 and 300 million turkeys are bred for slaughter in the United States? Photo and quoted text courtesy of Farm Sanctuary. Start with Thanksgiving.”.

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Critter News

JUNE 26, 2009

He added "a large number of game animals", including antelopes, had also been slaughtered. In 1980, Lake Edward had a hippopotamus sanctuary with 27,000 animals. Bantu Lukamba, from local environmental NGO Innovation, said: "At least 31 animals, including 11 migratory birds and three hippos were killed over 21 days."

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

Together with colleagues, Hicks was able to take in five orphaned chimpanzees who will soon be sent to a sanctuary in eastern Congo. Sadly, there is evidence that the bushmeat trade is spreading rapidly into the Bili and Rubi-Tele protected areas, both of which have been recently invaded by illegal miners.

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