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Turkey Abuse in West Virginia Aviagen Plant

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Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre. Bottom line: If you’re running a business where you allow the kinds of shortcuts that let animal abuse happen, please sell it and leave the industry now. Find another line of work. If you’re caught by PETA or HSUS, please do not plead ignorance and vow to clean it up.

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Zone of Happiness Birding

10,000 Birds

In previous years these species made the top five; Brown Honeyeater , Australian Brush Turkey , Spotted Dove [I], Spangled Drongo , Blue-faced Honeyeater , and Masked Lapwing. The careful identification of species and their conservation and welfare are my chief concerns. I am a birder first and a photographer second.

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More Humane Method of Killing Chickens?

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Department of Agriculture (USDA)-approved slaughter method that is currently used to kill 75 percent of turkeys and 25 percent of chickens in the United Kingdom and 10 percent of all birds in the European Union. Tags: meat PETA farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Controlled-atmosphere killing is a U.S.

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Pork Industry Tries to Deal with Public Image

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On Wednesday, I almost lost my temper with some people in our customer service unit who wondered why anyone would want a turkey to have a good life before death."it's it's just a turkey." Tags: meat pigs pork farm animal welfare. And, of course, this view of farm animals is the norm.

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On Individuals and Thanksgiving

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cause for concern about his welfare. turkey. . . Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Thanksgiving veganism. And not just dead, mind you, but cause for celebration. Yet the turtle. Concern about his life. A hope for his life to continue. Even putting yourself in harm's way to help him.

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Are Farm Animals Usually Killed in a Humane Manner?

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There have been several high-profile cases of severe abuse that only require a search on the web (examples include turkeys being used as punching bags while alive and paint being sprayed into hogs’ eyes for “fun.") Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. This is mass production. (As