Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

In Malaysia, 12 tonnes of exotic animal meat was seized from smugglers. It consisted of bear, iguana and owl meat. Any kind of meat is gross to me, but owl? Tags: exotic meats smuggling malaysia. don't know how I come across these weird stories. That's new to me!

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently heard arguments in National Meat Association v. Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. Did anyone know this was going on?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

I'm trying to come up with a book for my book club about animal rights. All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat. One is a huge supporter of animal research. But now we have "Eating Animals,"by Jonathan Safran Foer. Tags: meat. What do I choose?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. It could mean not only an end to killing animals for food, but also significantly aid the fight against climate change. Tags: meat meat alternatives vegetarian meatless.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 26, 2009

Today's message and call to action is from David Cantor of Responsible Policies for Animals (thanks, Mike!). Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Instead, our LGUs teach the false ancient beliefs that maintain meat -- including dairy, fish, eggs, and feed crops -- as an institution. . Best wishes, .

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Critter News

MARCH 30, 2011

I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. Gene Bauer from Farm Sanctuary appears in this article. 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.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather. This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Animal rights groups are calling for a ban on the sale of horse meat after disturbing video at a slaughterhouse in west Quebec was sent to the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition. For the coalition, it was added evidence there needs to be a ban on horse meat for more than just health reasons. Excerpted from CTV.CA.

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

Hard to wean people off animals when the US government is propping up the industries, and especially when so much of it ends up on school lunch trays (laying the foundation for this nation's obesity problem in my opinion.) Tags: subsidies meat USDA pork agribusiness dairy. I also have problems with subsidies to big agribusiness.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Chris from Beijing wasn't able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer's sequel to Eating Animals. Not Eating Animals. And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Here's an example of "joint costs" that says all you need to know about animals as nothing more than inputs in a manufacturing process. The meat packing industry takes a single input, a steer, and produces many different final products.

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AnimalEquality.net

JANUARY 15, 2025

Animal Equality’s investigation reveals the impact of Brazil’s 2022 Self-Control Law, which reduced government oversight of slaughterhouses. The findings uncover rampant cruelty and violations, with profits prioritized over animals, public health, and transparency.

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AnimalEquality.net

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Ahold Delhaize—the global company behind Food Lion, Giant Food, Hannaford, and Stop & Shop—is under fire for failing animals. Despite publicly claiming to support animal welfare, the company has delayed its goals and failed to report meaningful progress on its existing promises.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. Most animals in the U.S. This is really interesting. I certainly didn't.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Australian scientists have set themselves the challenge of understanding the minds of animals and what they are feeling. The challenge is to gain insights - in a scientifically rigorous way - into how animals' minds work," CSIRO scientist Caroline Lee said in a statement on Wednesday.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.

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Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

They castrate piglets in Europe for sanitary purposes (to avoid taint in the meat), but the methods are not terribly humane. Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare. 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.

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Critter News

APRIL 25, 2009

San Diego has ties to animal rights extremist groups. He is known to follow a vegan diet, eating no meat or food containing animal products. Daniel Andreas San Diego, wanted for alleged involvement in 2 bombings in San Francisco has been listed by the FBI as one of their Most Wanted Terrorists.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

In the case of the acuri, the birds usually eat those kernels that have already fallen to the ground or that have been ruminated by cattle or wild animals, but they eat bocaiuva nuts straight off the bunches hanging from the trees. These macaws nest in existing holes in trees.

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Critter News

MAY 9, 2009

It's titled "The Animal Activists' Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World" by Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich. They even go so far as to insist that it can be a good thing for vegetarians to date meat-eaters! One guy runs Vegan Outreach and the other is a VP at PETA (they have those?).

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. But that's me.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. In the author's words.

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Critter News

MARCH 15, 2012

Quebec is not known for its animal welfare concerns or laws. I think the issue stems from this being an Islamic practice and the fear of contaminated meat, not concern for the animals. The pro-independence party said it was worried that mainstream companies are selling halal meat without labeling to unsuspecting consumers.

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AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Animal Equality in Mexico is shaping the future for farmed animals with legislative reform. With rich emotional lives and unbreakable family bonds, farmed animals deserve to be protected. You can build a kinder world by replacing animal… Source You can build a kinder world by replacing animal… Source

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

This theatrical personality was first introduced to a wider audience in Bill Buford’s excellent 2006 culinary memoir Heat , which depicts Cecchini as uncompromising – and perhaps a bit mad – genius of butchery, but one with the utmost reverence for his craft and the respectful use of the animals we eat.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2008

I'd rather not any meat at all, thank you, but for those meat addicts like my husband, this could help. Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, humane, and "commercially viable" test-tube meat by 2012.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping. And so, the local subspecies of Bewick’s wren, a bird described in 1908 a “very common on all parts of the island,” was gone by the 1940’s, its habitat converted into goat flesh. And so, the U.S.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Throughout the entire show, the judges and contestants always refer to their meats as the "protein." Protein is not dependent on meat at all. I've seen two chefs wear stupid meat-inspired shirts. And frankly, I'm not sure these chefs have the training to do anything that doesn't involve a baby animal. That's not true.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2024

They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).

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Animal Person

APRIL 19, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. (..)

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Critter News

APRIL 11, 2009

As an aside, people who love to eat meat should also watch educational videos like these. If one wants to eat meat, fine, but understand how you are spending your money. Conditions for farm animals will not change until meat-eaters start demanding changes themselves. Tags: UK meat pigs.

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Critter News

JANUARY 14, 2010

Now there is a marriage made in heaven, two countries with atrocious records on animal issues have come together. The EU was a small market for Canada. Of course, we're disappointed in their actions," Ms. Shea said by telephone from China today. That being said, there are many other markets out there. That's what we're doing in China.

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Critter News

MAY 8, 2009

A cow that escaped from a slaughter house in NY City has been allowed to go to an animal sanctuary. Tags: meat animal rescue Slaughterhouse cows meatpacking.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. Back then I was a young child and never thought any different about greyhounds or indeed any other animal. He would not return for many hours. Thinking back still touch's me to the point where I feel so guilty-but I knew no different.

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Critter News

MARCH 26, 2009

were vegetarians for years before switching back to meat-eating. I recently found out that a male coworker was also a vegetarian for eight years before reverting back to meat. I haven't asked these people why they went back to eating meat. My two friends, both female, are sensitive animal-lovers. Of my current circle.

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Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

The trade in TCM {Traditional Chinese Medicine} products has also been growing at an annual rate of 10 percent, which has seriously impacted medicinal plant and animal populations, though more than half of plants and animals being used by TCM are from artificial propagation or captive breeding.

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