Ted Kennedy and Animal Welfare
Critter News
AUGUST 28, 2009
Interesting article on Senator Edward Kennedy that highlights his little-known contributions to animal welfare. Tags: legislation animal welfare. It's from the Humane Society.
Animal Welfare in the State of California
Critter News
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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Ag Industry Looks Ahead to More Animal Welfare Issues
Critter News
JANUARY 5, 2009
It's a small mention in this Ag Week article about issues coming up in 2009 , but worth noting. Another big issue gaining momentum is animal welfare. Tags: farm animal welfare us agribusiness. The recent passing of a proposition in California to strictly manage how laying chickens are kept serves notice, he says.
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Time.com Article on the Morals of Eating Meat
Critter News
MARCH 30, 2011
Gene Bauer from Farm Sanctuary appears in this article. Pretty intense, but I hope people read it. There is a disturbing hedonism to eating. I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. We just don't think about where that flesh came from.and most of us don't care.
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The Conflict Between Animal Welfare and Agribusiness
Critter News
MARCH 30, 2010
This article pretty much sums up how the two agendas are simply at cross-purposes. Compassion is perceived to hurt profits. It spotlights the Humane Society, but I think it's a pretty universal comparison.
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Animal Welfare Concerns May Be Influencing UK Animal Research
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2012
This article in the Herald Tribune claims that animal rights is winning out over animal research. I would take the article with a grain of salt. It depends on who's writing the article of course.I I've read the same on the other side. think it's still a long, long fight. But perhaps these are positive signs.
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100 Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?
Critter News
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. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.
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Western WA Puppy Mills Had Troubled History, But Still Allowed to Operate
Critter News
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
This is a good article about the puppy mills operated by a Western Washington woman and her parents. The article is particularly thorough and damning. Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us. This is definitely a situation that could have been stopped early on.
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100 Pork Industry Tries to Deal with Public Image
Critter News
NOVEMBER 27, 2009
Every time I get depressed about animal issues (every other day it seems like), I see an article like this. 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. Tags: meat pigs pork farm animal welfare. it's just a turkey."
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CBS News Runs Series on Factory Farms
Critter News
FEBRUARY 20, 2010
According to her, there was a message that removing the use of antibiotics would actually improve these poor animals' welfare. Here is an article about the series. Tags: antibiotics cbs farm animal welfare factory farm agriculture agribusiness. Unfortunately, I missed this series as we don't watch network television.
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Australian Animal Rights Campaign to Help Calves
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2011
Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now. Australian Dairy Farmers animal health and welfare chairman David Basham, said studies had shown "no adverse affects on welfare up to 30 hours". ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves.
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Big Ag Fighting Back with PR
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2009
This article has a good summary of the victories to which this industry is reacting. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. "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. "We
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The Nonessential Whooping Crane
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife? Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?&# It brings to question the purpose of wildlife management.
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Questionable Practices at the Calgary Zoo
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Look at all these incidents that have occurred there (listed in the Montreal Gazette article in the above link).I Tags: zoos welfare violations animal welfare. Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. A zookeeper had left the knife behind in the exhibit.
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Australian Scientists to Study Animal Feelings
Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Go here for the full article. Advertisement: Story continues below "Ultimately, the outcomes of this research will expand on our understanding of emotional and cognitive functions of livestock and the impacts of farming practices on animal welfare." The purpose is to make them happier as livestock.
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Animal Hoarding is a Serious Issue
Critter News
MAY 12, 2009
From an article in, of all places, "Farm and Dairy: The Auction Guide and Rural Marketplace:".there Tags: animal cruelty animal welfare hoarding. Animal hoarding is a pretty serious act that causes untold suffering for animals.
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Trader Joe's Eggs NOT Humane
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
I looked online and all I could find was this article on The Vegetarian Site. None of the employees at my local store could offer any information concerning the welfare of the hens. Tags: eggs consumption farm animal welfare groceries. Here's what they say about Trader Joe's eggs (definitely does not sound humane to me.)
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100 Some Good News In NJ Farm Animals Case
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2008
“Although the court noted that these practices are controversial and that downed animals ‘suffer greatly,’ it found the record on appeal insufficient to warrant striking the regulations at this time,” explains an article from the Environmental News Service. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm us.
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100 McDonalds Makes Positive Move to Help Sows
Critter News
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
For the full story, check out this link to the New York Times article. There are alternatives we think are better for the welfare of sows.”. I'm no fan of McDonalds, but any little bit of help is progress. Here's an excerpt.
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Proposed Nebraska Legislation Angers Horse Activists
Critter News
JANUARY 18, 2011
click here for the full article. He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act. From the Lexington Clipper-Herald. Two bills introduced in the Nebraska Legislature are drawing fire from the largest animal advocacy organization in the world. Newcomer to the Legislature Sen.
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Canada and Greenland Defend Seal Hunting
Critter News
JANUARY 22, 2009
Canadian fisheries ministry representative Garry Stenson said the hunt “is humane, well regulated and sustainable” and that new rules for the hunt were under review to strengthen inspections, monitoring and enforcement of animal welfare rules. The article does say that the Inuit communities would have special exemptions.
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Our Strange Relationship with Animals
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2009
One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. The article continues. I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]
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Animal Person
MAY 28, 2009
Related articles by Zemanta Doctors endorse vegan and vegetarian diets for healthy pregnancies (scienceblog.com). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com). Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter?
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Lobsters Are Smarter than Many Think
Critter News
FEBRUARY 1, 2009
After reading this article , I'm rescuing the next ones I see. Even before the New Scientist study, the European Food Safety Authority's Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare had concluded that lobsters and crabs are capable of experiencing pain and distress and are worthy of legislative protection.
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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review
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JANUARY 3, 2023
These prescriptions are very important to Tuttle-Adams, who takes the perhaps radical approach that a bird’s welfare supersedes a birder’s ‘right’ to take a photograph. A birder or rehabber looking for a comprehensive collection should consider having both books in their collection.
Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
If you can get through the article's pernicious nonsense, there are some salient points, albeit the result of confusion on the part of the author. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare." Animal activists don't care about the health or welfare of deer herds?
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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories
Critter News
OCTOBER 12, 2009
I don't believe they are working for human welfare. The title of this article is "Researchers to animal-rights activists: We are not afraid." I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I'm sorry, but I am not moved.
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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research
Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
It's from a Reuters article from last May.I The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each year, mostly mice and rats. Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates.
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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China
Animal Person
JANUARY 27, 2010
Sometimes an article has a couple of the above, as in the case of " Chinese Legal Experts Call for a Ban on Eating Cats and Dogs." Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? Just because you did something for years doesn't mean it has some magical inherent value and you should continue to do it today and tomorrow.
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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business
Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article. And they were, before they stopped their train of thought prior to it reaching its most important station.
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Critter News
MARCH 29, 2012
This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced! California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced.
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Do Chickens Feel Empathy?
Critter News
MARCH 22, 2011
Here's an article from the Telegraph regarding chickens feeling empathy. 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.
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4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 24, 2009
“As an animal welfare worker (professionally or as a volunteer), you know what it feels like when you make a positive difference in the life of an animal. Article Source: [link]. This is a guest post from Cherie, and I think that it is something everyone who rescues animals needs to read. Thanks Cherie!
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From Today's New York Times
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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. We constantly stretch our limited resources to save lives as a nonprofit organization.
Mexican Activists Staged Protest Early this Month
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2012
I copied the full article from the Latin American Herald Tribune. Late on this story. MEXICO CITY – Animal rights activists staged a protest against the sale of pets in Mexico City, urging residents to adopt dogs and other animals instead of buying them.
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 17, 2008
To the Editor: Thank you for publicizing the plight of satos—street dogs—in Puerto Rico in “ Scrutiny for Puerto Rico Over Animal Treatment ” (news article, March 9). Thank you for doing just that, by telling the American public what’s happening in Puerto Rico through your compelling article and photographs.
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From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
The article does, however, gloss over the undeniable fact that even cows with names produce milk only because they have recently given birth to calves who, if male, have been taken away from them. Even at Bob Bansen’s dairy, food comes at the cost of animal welfare. 10, 2012
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
APRIL 8, 2008
To the Editor: While businesses that rent dogs may be well intentioned, they’re unlikely to benefit the overall welfare of pets, and may actually do harm to the individual dogs they “rent” (“ For a Temporary Best-Friend Fix, Rent a Dog (Kibble Included) for a Day ,” news article, March 30).
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 11, 2008
To the Editor: Missing from your article was mention of deleterious environmental and health effects resulting from intensive animal farming in addition to global warming. This would result in improved human health, decreased environmental destruction and better animal welfare. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass., Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.
Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.” In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.”
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From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov. This made me feel guilty.
Faith and Animal Welfare Issues
Critter News
OCTOBER 5, 2008
Here is a good article about trying to link religion with animal welfare. As far as Christianity, I still don't see how at least American Christianity can be coupled with helping animals. Not that I want to lump all Christians into one monolithic group.
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Zone of Happiness Birding
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MARCH 29, 2021
The careful identification of species and their conservation and welfare are my chief concerns. Accompanying this article are photographs of the most common species recorded in our area. As long as the species is identifiable by the image then the image is deemed ‘good’.
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Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2012
Full article on Food Safety News. Emeritus Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph in Ontario and the President of the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada. To offset yesterday's crappy news about California, here's good news from the EU! As of Jan. As of Jan. egg producers an estimated £400 million ($613 million).
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