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This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle. Tags: europe pigsfarmanimalwelfare.
Thanks to FarmedAnimal Net for this information from August 8. In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmedanimals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.
We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animalwelfare. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Animalwelfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. These pigs are simply raw materials. Here's an example.
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 animalwelfare. The pork industry does not make money from happy pigs, but from dead carcasses.
It's an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as intelligent creatures that could be someone's pet. And, of course, this view of farmanimals is the norm. Tags: meat pigs pork farmanimalwelfare. it's just a turkey."
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animalwelfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farmanimalwelfare factory farm.
To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farmanimalwelfare law presages what is coming for all farmanimal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farmanimal protection group.'
To the Editor: Re “ Virus Spreading Alarm and Deadly Pig Disease in China ” (Business Day, Aug. Though it may be too late for too many, we can only hope that diseased animals are not left in pain but are humanely euthanized to end their suffering. In the long term, there is a glimmer of hope for China’s pigs.
Supreme Court rules on health care challenge| GPS tracking "The Federal Meat Inspection Act regulates slaughterhouses' handling and treatment of non-ambulatory pigs from the moment of their delivery through the end of the meat production process," wrote Justice Elena Kagan.
To the Editor: Re “ Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind ” (Op-Ed, Feb. 20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” FarmAnimalWelfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. But we can ask, and they can answer. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,
I'm no fan of McDonalds, but any little bit of help is progress. Here's an excerpt. For the full story, check out this link to the New York Times article.
Safeway and Kroger have announced they're halting all purchases of the farm's pork. Mercy for Animals is trying to convince Costco to do the same. News story is from the end of June. Almost let that one slip by!
It's bad enough having to deal with the welfare of normal farmanimals, but what about the welfare of cloned animals? If they are cloned solely for the products they provide, will it be more difficult to argue for their welfare as living creatures? From the Daily Mail.
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