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Critter News
APRIL 10, 2011
Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. This couldn’t have been done without you. Together, we are making a difference!
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2009
Bo Obama celebrated his birthday with a doghouse cake made out of veal. When I was still a meat-eater, the two foods I would not touch were veal and lamb. Veal is especially cruel, even for factory farming, although now I think foie gras is a strong competitor. Tags: Obama veal bo obama.
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Animal Ethics
APRIL 18, 2007
Have a taste for veal? You can now eat it with a clear conscience—at least if you're a utilitarian. See here.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Animal rights advocates have singled out the crates, known as sow stalls, as inhumane, and several states have moved to ban or restrict their use not only in pork production, but also in the production of eggs and veal.
Critter News
OCTOBER 18, 2011
It was served with veal tongue, yogurt, prosciutto, mustard ice cream and truffles. But for seven hours on Friday night, at a restaurant appropriately known as Animal, three chefs presented an eight-course meal that was nothing short of a glorification of this soon-to-be-outlawed delicacy.
Critter News
APRIL 21, 2009
Many diners are huge fans of its taste, describing the mammal's meat as somewhere between duck and veal. Now, rustic seal has been carted out by back-to-basics foodies dressed up as a gourmet delight, particularly inspiring diners in mostly French-speaking Quebec province, where there is a devoted food-lovers' culture.
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. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 5, 2008
It applies to breeding pigs, egg laying hens and veal calves. Proposition 2 ends the practice of confining certain animals raised for food in crates and cages so small the animals can barely move. Prop 2 requires that factory farms provide enough space for animals to stand up, turn around and extend their limbs.
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. I won't get into whether I find that to be a victory.
Animal Person
APRIL 7, 2011
I spent years forcing people to look at photos of bludgeoned baby seals, "veal" calves in crates and skinned animals. Earthlings is devastating and although I watched it in full, I can't imagine anyone I know being prepared for it or agreeing to watch more than a few minutes. I always used the words "flesh" and "enslavement."
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 !
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 25, 2010
Thus far, the state ballot initiatives and agreements that will expand space for chickens (as well as for gestating pigs and veal calves) are really very minor. To the Editor: Re “ A Hen’s Space to Roost ” (Week in Review, Aug. At most, chickens will be guaranteed room to spread their wings.
Animal Ethics
JULY 12, 2010
In late June, a compromise was reached in Ohio that will gradually put an end to the tiny pens used for raising veal calves and holding pregnant sows, spaces so small the animals can barely move. In California last week, Gov.
Animal Person
JUNE 17, 2009
Eat More Veal? 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. How About Be More Honest. On Graphic Images We DON'T See. The PeTA I Knew and Loved, Sort Of.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. He is an unabashed speciesist, putting humans on “a different moral plane from that of other animals” (11) due to various reasons, such as our “vastly greater capacity for symbolic language, culture, and ethical judgment” (11).
Animal Ethics
JUNE 12, 2012
The animals frequently are crowded together, as in the case of hogs, or kept in isolation, as in the case of veal calves. Modern farms (so-called factory farms), for example, raise animals in unnatural conditions.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
Since the male offspring of dairy cows don't produce milk, they are sold to veal farms, where they are permanently confined in veal crates that prevent them from moving or turning around. So, by purchasing dairy products one is indirectly supporting the inherently cruel veal industry.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
Some might argue that while eating meat is in general acceptable, we are under an obligation to abstain from meat produced in particularly harsh ways: from veal perhaps, or from lobster or from pâté de foie gras.
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