Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

The Pork Board has planned delegate meetings at the {annual Pork Industry} forum to discuss quality assurance rules including animal handling, and how much money to allocate to promote animal welfare. Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animal welfare factory farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm.

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Critter News

JUNE 1, 2009

A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty. A jury in West Haverstraw deliberated less than two hours before convicting Robert Everle of all 13 charges of torturing, injuring and starving animals. And people wonder why I'm so disappointed by humans.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us.

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Critter News

JULY 3, 2010

Animal welfare groups led by the Humane Society of the United States have agreed to abandon a fall ballot issue against animal cruelty as part of a deal with state farm groups brokered by Gov. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare. From the Associated Press.

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2009

It was an "experiment" you see, even though they are just Animal Control, not a research facility. Clay County violated five federal animal welfare regulations in a in September 2008 experiment that involved putting a dog in a non-air-conditioned truck for an hour at midday, according to a U.S.

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Critter News

MARCH 27, 2009

Tags: louisiana animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty new iberia research center animal welfare us.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

In a written statement the company said it was making the move after an investigation revealed that Radlo Foods violated the terms of an agreement by working with a farm that is not in compliance with its strict animal welfare standards. The group's findings have now triggered an investigation by the state's Animal Welfare Program.

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Critter News

MAY 12, 2009

It’s not just one animal that was abused or neglected, it is usually hundreds that have suffered in deplorable conditions, many of these animals enduring a slow and painful death. Tags: animal cruelty animal welfare hoarding.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 13, 2010

“Animal rescue and animal welfare continues to be a top cause for our volunteers and actually served as the genesis for the founding of our organization,&# said The Volunteer Advantage’s Merritt Friedman. These points are then redeemed for rewards, discounts and coupons from local and national businesses.

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Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

Tags: developing countries donkeys animal cruelty working animals animal welfare.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

I guess small protests like NARN's seem futile when compared to the overwhelming issue of animal welfare, but you have to think that a number of small protests over time can have a large cumulative impact. Tags: animal cruelty california foie gras food.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

Yesterday , Abby wrote: Off topic, but I was wondering if you have any advice for those of us who are highly emotionally sensitive and also interested in animal welfare issues? I get so sad when I hear about the mistreatment of animals that it really affects me, but at the same time I want to be able to create change in the world.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 25, 2007

To the Editor: “ For ‘Animal Precinct,’ Reality Subject to Dispute ” (news article, July 23) missed the entire point of comprehensive animal welfare: that effective animal welfare requires both response and prevention. The real story here is our tireless commitment to fighting animal cruelty.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2007

The use of animals in entertainment when animal cruelty is involved is deplorable, whether it is dog fighting or bull riding. Brad Goldberg President, Animal Welfare Trust Mamaroneck, N.Y., Corporations should reject the notion that this is a sport worthy of their ad dollars.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Herzog states, “The awkward fact is that most wanton animal cruelty is not perpetrated by inherently bad kids but by normal children who will eventually grow up to be good citizens” (34). . The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. In 1950, each American consumed, on average, 144 pounds of animal flesh a year. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The fallout from the huge puppy mill seizure is fueling calls for a review of Quebec's animal rights laws, which are abysmal even for Canada. Animal welfare workers are calling for stricter laws on breeding facilities after more than 500 allegedly malnourished dogs were seized from a Quebec puppy farm last week.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

As an Illinois state senator, he backed at least a dozen animal protection laws, including those to strengthen the penalties for animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering, and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.

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