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PETA wants to run a campaign that compares factoryfarming to the Holocaust. The German constitutional court has ruled that animal rights organisation PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) must end its campaign in which it draws a comparison between the Holocaust and industrial farming.
California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factoryfarms. PETA is not convinced. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!
As the quarterly campaign finance period closed today, the YES! on Prop 2 campaign reports a tidal wave of voter and donor support from Californians backing the effort to stop the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals on industrial factoryfarms. It's from September 30, from the Humane Society. Chief economist?
From the campaign website : (Nov. 4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factoryfarms by an overwhelming margin. on Prop 2 campaign. Prop 2 goes into effect in January of 2015, giving factoryfarms six years to shift to different housing systems.
on Prop 2 - Californians for Humane Farms - has uncovered an election scam and is charging the measure’s opponents with laundering money in violation of state campaign finance laws. Tags: eggs california factoryfarm agribusiness. In a complaint filed September 3 with California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, YES!
Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factoryfarming, bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer. Sounds interesting.
Many states exempt routine practices from their cruelty code, and the precedent-setting ruling will be used in the nationwide campaign against controversial practices. Tags: farm animal welfare factoryfarm us. The plaintiffs plan to pressure the NJDA to abandon them when the regulations are revised.
Update 10/13/24: Volunteers gathered outside an Aldi store in Dallas, Texas, using megaphones and a life-size gestation crate to take a stand for mother pigs. Flyers were handed out to shoppers, and a leaflet was given to the store manager to pass along to corporate leadership.
Over a month ago, Animal Equality’s global team launched a campaign to remove foie gras from the 2024 Olympic hospitality menu. Foie gras production involves force-feeding ducks and geese multiple times daily until their livers swell up to ten times their natural size. Many animals bleed, pant, shake, and vomit during this process.
11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factoryfarming. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factoryfarming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov.
On July 22, just days before the Olympics, Animal Equality intensified its global campaign against foie gras by traveling to Paris. Advocates carried over 60,000 petition signatures, urging the Olympic organizers to remove foie gras from the VIP hospitality menu.
In addition to eroding consumer trust, this delay will leave millions of farmed animals in cramped conditions for years… Source Ahold Delhaize—the global company behind Food Lion, Giant Food, Hannaford, and Stop & Shop—is under fire for failing animals.
Animal Equality in Mexico is shaping the future for farmed animals with legislative reform. Advocates are working on two levels—reshaping the food system and plant-based options nationally, while strengthening farm rules locally. With rich emotional lives and unbreakable family bonds, farmed animals deserve to be protected.
However, the factoryfarm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria. I highly recommend Farm Sanctuary's issue page.short and to the point.) There are probably no happy animals in factoryfarming (ie. Livestock don’t contribute to campaigns, but agribusiness does.
About Animal Defenders International (ADI): With offices in Los Angeles, London and Bogota, Animal Defenders International (ADI) campaigns to protect animals in entertainment; replacement of animals in experiments; worldwide traffic in endangered species; vegetarianism; factoryfarming; pollution and conservation.
Scotland’s Rural Affairs and Islands Committee has released a scathing report of the salmon industry, intensifying scrutiny across the U.K. Using evidence from Animal Equality, the report revealed widespread disease, lice outbreaks, and alarming death rates.
The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factoryfarm system. The problem, then, is the question Scott is asking and the assumptions he is making.
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