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.

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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. I won't get into whether I find that to be a victory.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2011

I was preparing to pound my veal for some scaloppini. I gathered my meat mallet from the drawer, dropped it forcefully on my veal, and the shock of the blow on the counter did something, maybe it acted as a fish defibrillator, I don’t know, but suddenly Fighter leapt to life. But something happened.

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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."

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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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