Critter News

OCTOBER 29, 2008

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 factory farms. Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Chief economist?

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Critter News

JANUARY 29, 2009

I got curious today and googled "Jennifer Fearing," the woman who led the Yes on Proposition 2 campaign. Tags: proposition 2 california humane society farm animal welfare. It turns out that she was the former Humane Society Chief Economist. Pretty impressive bio (please note that the bio is from her time at HSUS).

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When Best Friends Animal Society reached out to us to help spread the word about their new campaign, we couldn’t wait to help. cats dogs people helping animals'

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

By encouraging people to bake with higher welfare eggs (as well as organic milk, butter and chocolate) vital funds will be raised to campaign against battery cages. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language Animal Rights Animal Welfare Compassion in World Farming World Farming. But that was back in 2006.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 9, 2009

(NYSE: KR) have teamed up to launch the second annual “ Tales for the Pet Lover’s Heart ” campaign, celebrating the unique bond between people and their pets, while raising funds for animal welfare organizations nationwide. For each story shared, Purina and Kroger will make an additional donation to animal welfare organizations.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? restaurants by animal rights activists." Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e.,

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 11, 2010

She will also host her own animal homelessness awareness campaign in her city by posting fliers and information in public places. To learn more about this campaign, and Dosomething.org , be sure to visit their website. She’s also going to start a blog featuring photos of lost pets from her community!

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

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 factory farm us. The plaintiffs plan to pressure the NJDA to abandon them when the regulations are revised.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

I do disagree with some of what follows, though, and agree with some as well (my comments are in italics): The animal rights movement must adapt their political campaigning strategies to these psychological facts. The aim of the campaign must be to change society, the social system in which people live, and not individual peoples’ minds. (

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

If so, campaign to ban the rodeo, for heaven's sake! Just be honest about your goal and campaign for it! But the HSUS is by no means an animal-rights organization; it is an animal welfare organization. Will the VHS support the rodeo if calf-roping is banned? That's what the ad would make me think.

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Born Free USA (BFUSA) is a nationally recognized leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation. Through litigation, legislation, and public education, BFUSA leads vital campaigns against animals in entertainment, exotic “pets”, trapping and fur, and destructive international wildlife trade.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

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? First of all, does he really believe that piffle? What on earth would even give him that idea? I think he's the anti-human person full of self hatred, and this is a case of projection.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2012

Through heart-wrenching rescues, informative awareness campaigns and much more, they are striving to make a difference in the world for those that don’t have a voice. Animal Rescue Corps puts animal welfare above all else. Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. Animal Rescue Corps.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Interestingly, the campaigns of happy meaters are acknowledged for perhaps being somewhat of a scam with the next sentence. Words like 'pastured,' 'grass-fed,' and 'free-range' are now synonymous with quality meat; they carry a potent if symbolic meaning that has eased many a consumer’s conscience and driven many a marketing campaign."

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

Livestock don’t contribute to campaigns, but agribusiness does. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. You are not processing their wellbeing, but their carcasses for meat. Factory farms are unlikely to be properly and regularly inspected by the USDA. Factory animals are voiceless victims.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Komen for the Cure® for their first annual “Paws for Pink” campaign. With a passionate culture committed to giving back, Dogtopia and its franchisees are extremely active in all types of community service, including working with animal welfare organizations and often raising money for charitable causes. is partnering with Susan G.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper. Part IV: Brown Dogs and Red Herrings.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism.

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

Right now, for instance, animal rights activists include those individuals who believe that welfare reforms might some day lead to the abolition of animal use, and that they should campaign for such reforms even if they provide the smallest improvements in comfort.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 9, 2010

We launched our newest label Disneynature and ’EARTH’ with our ‘Buy a Ticket, Plant a Tree’ effort that benefited The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees Campaign,” said Chuck Viane, president, distribution, for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. To date, the DWCF has granted more than $14 million to 817 projects in 110 countries.

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Critter News

JULY 22, 2011

This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. THE DUTCH parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban the ritual slaughter of livestock.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most informative for a discussion about vegan advocacy is the section about the animal rights movement (and unfortunately he alternately calls it “animal protection” and also refers to welfare, perhaps because of the Humane Research Council’s study that people prefer the word “protection”).

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Hello, We've recently launched a new website, the PB&J Campaign. It takes a slightly different take on vegetarian advocacy—trying to quantify the effects of single meal decisions to protect the environment and improve animal welfare.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

This comes at an enormous cost to animal welfare, the environment and of course public health. Paul Shapiro Senior Director Factory Farming Campaign Humane Society of the United States Washington, Nov. A shift toward more vegetarian options would indeed benefit us all. We can start at our next meal. 11, 2008

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

Pat Derby, President and Founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, said, “Animal Defenders International contacted PAWS last year about providing a permanent home for the African lions remaining in Bolivia. ADI gathered evidence has led to campaigns and legislative action all over the world to protect them.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com , in which Rep. A prime example of this is our concern for the welfare of animals in agriculture.". I don't think anyone is campaigning for "farm" animals to become pets, as many of us don't even think the family cat should be the family cat. Translation?

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