Horrible Tail Docking Video Spurs Call for Ban
Critter News
JANUARY 28, 2010
Tags: New York tail docking farm animal welfare. Just awful. More great undercover work though by Mercy for Animals.
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Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.)
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Investigation Reveals Cruel Treatment of Pigs in Europe
Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2008
Investigators from Compassion in World Farming found 80 per cent of farms across five European countries engaging in illegal practices such as barren pens and routine tail-docking. In 48 farms, farmers had cut the tails off pigs to stop them biting each other, despite EU rules restricting tail-docking.
Some Good News In NJ Farm Animals Case
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AUGUST 17, 2008
While the decision did not ban any procedure or practice, “the Court further held that tail docking could not be considered humane, and [that] mutilations without anesthesia including castration, de-beaking and de-toeing could not be considered humane without some specific requirements to prevent pain and suffering,” the article notes.
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