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JANUARY 19, 2009

Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

Another big issue gaining momentum is animal welfare. Tags: farm animal welfare us agribusiness. It's a small mention in this Ag Week article about issues coming up in 2009 , but worth noting. The recent passing of a proposition in California to strictly manage how laying chickens are kept serves notice, he says.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

For the first time in European Union (EU) history, a new role will focus entirely on animal protection. Hungarian politician Olivér Várhelyi has been nominated as the Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, pending approval by the European Parliament. However… Source

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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. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

California really is at the forefront of animal welfare and this is an excellent article detailing what's going on in the State and the challenges animal welfare faces. It also does a great job at profiling Jennifer Fearing who led the victory of Proposition 2. She sounds amazing.

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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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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Katie Couric did a story on the use of antibiotics on factory farms in the US and the potential harm to humans. According to her, there was a message that removing the use of antibiotics would actually improve these poor animals' welfare. Unfortunately, I missed this series as we don't watch network television.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Tags: animal abuse eggs farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

A new study, published online in Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, suggests that animal assisted therapy for people with mental disorders can be effective with farm animals. After six months of animal assisted therapy with farm animals, all patients reported significantly increased coping skills.

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

World Farm Animals Day was today. Tags: depressed farm animal welfare. Perhaps it's because of gloomy October or maybe it's because I'm getting over the flu, but I felt very sad. There was a picture on the bus commemorating the event with a picture of a cow looking, dare I say it, noble and long-suffering.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Tags: farm animal welfare.

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty pigs farm animal welfare.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

While the Humane Society was pretty happy with Vilsack as Obama's pick for the Department of Agriculture, the Farm Sanctuary is wary. Bauer is the president and co-founder of the Farm Sanctuary. As Iowa’s Governor, Tom Vilsack took steps to protect animals, including vetoing a bill that allowed dove hunting.

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AUGUST 17, 2008

Thanks to Farmed Animal 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 farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.

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JULY 10, 2010

A Union County grand jury has decided the owner of a Union County dairy farm caught in an abuse scandal should not face criminal charges.on the tape {from an undercover investigation by Mercy for Animals,) Conklin is shown kicking a cow that is lying down. From the Columbus Dispatch.

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APRIL 1, 2009

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 farm animal. However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria.

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JULY 24, 2012

The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. This makes perfect sense.

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APRIL 12, 2010

The dog breeding legislation, intended to outlaw “puppy-farming”, was prepared by Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment John Gormley. Legislators are being contacted by people around the world to support the legislation. They are blaming the dastardly Green Party whose leader proposed the legislation.

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MARCH 19, 2009

It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a Factory Farm." 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. I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.

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OCTOBER 19, 2008

Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information. These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. At the International Egg Commission’s annual meeting, held last month in China, it was noted that animal welfare activists in the U.S.

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APRIL 24, 2009

We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. Here's an example.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Here's a book that you can buy about rescued farm animals and their stories. Love this group! It should be inspiring and it's a great way to support an extraordinary organization.

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APRIL 10, 2009

Good news following an investigation of farm animal abuses by Mercy for Animals. Sometime soon, David Radlo of Radlo Foods says his sign in front of the former DeCoster Egg Farm will be coming down and all his business at the massive egg operation in Turner will come to an end. Here's a link to the investigative video.

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JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

Basically, it sounds like the ag committee will be including food safety and animal welfare concerns in their discussions. Tags: california bile farming farm animal welfare agribusiness food. The ag industry does NOT like this. There is definitely a new tide in California, post Proposition 2.

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JULY 4, 2010

Yesterday, I raised the issue that some may think the Humane Society copped out by making a deal with Ohio agriculture and NOT bringing new animal welfare regulations to the ballot. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare agriculture agribusiness.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Not the solution or end to factory farming, but if big ag can't rely on antibiotics, then they may have to rethink the filthy conditions of factory farms. Animals would get sick much easier, possibly affecting the bottom line of profit above all. Tags: antibiotics farm animal welfare factory farm.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

More great undercover work though by Mercy for Animals. Tags: New York tail docking farm animal welfare. Just awful.

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DECEMBER 26, 2009

There are no happy farm animals, you liars. Clearly the animal rights community is much more emboldened and aggressive than they have been in the past," said {National Milk Producers Federation} spokesman Chris Galen. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. And people are seeing it.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

CAK eliminates the numerous animal welfare, economic, and worker-safety issues associated with electric immobilization: * With CAK, birds are dead before they are removed from their crates, shackled, bled, and scalded in defeathering tanks. Tags: meat PETA farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Tags: seattle pacific northwest farm animal welfare chickens.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

From the Farm Sanctuary. For 25 years, Farm Sanctuary has relied on the Walk to support its mission to protect farm animals from cruelty and inspire change in the way society views and treats farm animals. For more information on the Walk and how to register, please visit walkforfarmanimals.org.

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JULY 31, 2024

Animal Equality’s UK Executive Director–alongside award-winning photographer Aitor Garmendia–has uncovered distressing animal suffering within a UK pig facility known as Cross Farm. The Southwest English farm confines about 12,000… Source

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NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Another nasty farm animal abuse story. Bottom line: If you’re running a business where you allow the kinds of shortcuts that let animal abuse happen, please sell it and leave the industry now. Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre. Overlooked this one. Find another line of work.

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APRIL 12, 2009

By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages. Whether or not you choose to eat eggs, this is a major victory for animals. This brings us one step closer to ending intense confinement of hens in factory farms.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

A coalition of animal protection groups consisting of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Farm Sanctuary, 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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