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While the Humane Society was pretty happy with Vilsack as Obama's pick for the Department of Agriculture, the FarmSanctuary is wary. Bauer is the president and co-founder of the FarmSanctuary. As Iowa’s Governor, Tom Vilsack took steps to protect animals, including vetoing a bill that allowed dove hunting.
How many people know this about the AnimalWelfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. Most animals in the U.S. This is really interesting.
Here's a book that you can buy about rescued farmanimals and their stories. Love this group! It should be inspiring and it's a great way to support an extraordinary organization.
From the FarmSanctuary. For 25 years, FarmSanctuary has relied on the Walk to support its mission to protect farmanimals from cruelty and inspire change in the way society views and treats farmanimals. For more information, please visit farmsanctuary.org.
A press release I received from the FarmSanctuary. AnimalWelfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.
The animal is well-treated during its life in terms of having space to roam, living free of fear and abuse, and being well-fed in clean conditions. In other words, the proverbial happy farmanimal. However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria.
A coalition of animal protection groups consisting of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), FarmSanctuary, and the Humane Farming Association (HFA), intervened in the case to ensure that the interests of animals and the public were represented.
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Gene Bauer from FarmSanctuary appears in this article. I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. Pretty intense, but I hope people read it. There is a disturbing hedonism to eating. We just don't think about where that flesh came from.and most of us don't care.
Now, I think they're wonderful and we sponsor Camilla the Chicken through FarmSanctuary'sanimal sponsorship program. The research is from the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. I used to hate chickens as a child and thought they were irritating.
The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animalwelfare advocates would not have a problem with. My experiences are unlike any of the film's subjects. For all of us.
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 FarmSanctuary, a national farmanimal protection group.'
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