More Alleged Abuse At Iowa Egg Farms
Critter News
APRIL 7, 2010
Tags: animal abuse eggs farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.
Consolidation of Egg Industry
Critter News
OCTOBER 19, 2008
So are egg corporations. 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. egg industry continues to consolidate. Proposed amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code have egg companies there worried.
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Egg Companies Accused of Price Collusion
Critter News
NOVEMBER 2, 2008
Fresh-egg farmers acted together through a series of export shipments, organized by United Egg Producers, an industry cartel whose 250-plus members include virtually all of the nation's big egg producers. By removing a small fraction of eggs that would have been bound for U.S. It's in the Wall Street Journal.
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The Other Side of the Egg Debate
Critter News
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
I am a firm supporter of reforming factory egg farming. And I'm willing to pay for more expensive eggs if it allows for that. Organic eggs are more expensive than the standard egg carton. Tags: proposition 2 eggs factory farm food chickens. Not everyone has that luxury.
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BOCA to Stop Using Eggs by End of 2009
Critter News
APRIL 12, 2009
On March 19, 2009 a company representative emailed Compassion Over Killing: "…I am pleased to let you know the BOCA brand will be eliminating eggs in all of its products by the end of this year. We anticipate all BOCA products will be egg free in 2010." They are striking a blow against the cruel egg industry.
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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. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.
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Northern Potoo
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2011
Besides the avian attributes of flight, feathers and laying eggs, potoos are quite possibly the most unbird-like birds in the world. Another really bizarre attribute of the potoos is their seemingly casual behavior of laying eggs on bare branches without any attempt to build nests. “Whhhaaaaaaa, whu whu whu whu whu whu&#.
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Birding the Datang area, Yunnan
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2024
A paper on the species asks the important question “Does nest sanitation elicit egg rejection in an open-cup nesting cuckoo host rejecter?” ” To rephrase: if you put some trash into a nest of a bird along with a cuckoo egg, does that improve the chance that the cuckoo egg will be kicked out? How to find out?
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Thousands of Tricolored Blackbirds Saved Through Farmer/Conservationist Partnership
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2013
In these situations, the birds have been treated like pests and targeted for extermination, or lost their eggs and nestlings to harvesting of the fields. Recently, Audubon California announced that its partnership with six California farms and the U.S.D.A.’s federal level, and a Species of Special Concern in California.
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Birding Shanghai in May
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2020
Understandably, after all the trouble of incubating the eggs. Little Curlews are passing through Shanghai for a short time, taking the local sod farm as a surrogate for tundra. A Grey Night Jar does what it does best – being almost invisible. A Tiger Shrike – as always – looks very stylish.
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Osprey in Missoula
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2013
Ogren Park Allegiance Field is the home of the Missoula Osprey*, a farm team for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Early April is a fairly typical time for the earlier-migrating Osprey to arrive (both birds at Dunrovin are already onsite,) but eggs probably won’t appear until late April or early May. Adaptation has its privileges!
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Western Bluebirds Are Back
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2015
From the 1913 USDA Farmers Bulletin #513, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard: “The bluebird is one of the most familiar tenants of the farm and dooryard. Its favorite nesting sites are crannies in the farm buildings or boxes made for its use or natural cavities in old apple trees.
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Gnatcatchers Nest-making
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2011
While birding this weekend at Mason Farm, I spotted this pair of Gnatcatchers working on their tiny lichen and spiderweb cup in the crook of a broken Black Willow limb. They’re first brood are probably a couple weeks off still. The nest appeared to be almost complete, weeks before the real rush of neotropic migrants is set to arrive.
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Baby Chicks Ground Up
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. I'd never heard of them before. I'm very impressed by their courage and tenacity.
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Critter News
JULY 8, 2011
A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S. history, the United Egg Producers (UEP) has agreed to support national legislation that will, upon enactment, improve the welfare of all laying hens in the nation. .
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100 Update on Proposition 2 in CA
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2008
Again, thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this update on California's proposition 2. California’s Proposition 2 is not solely about the California egg business but is also about the egg industry’s national survival, warned Gene Gregory at the annual legislative meeting of United Egg Producers (UEP).
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Prop 2 Opponents Accused of Laundering Money
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
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 factory farm agribusiness. In a complaint filed September 3 with California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, YES!
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100 Proposition 2 Poll
Critter News
OCTOBER 29, 2008
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? That's so cool!
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Clemson Researcher Investigates Impacts of Cages on Laying Hens
Critter News
JUNE 28, 2009
Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually. Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness.
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Grocery giant stalls on animal welfare, millions left to suffer
AnimalEquality.net
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In addition to eroding consumer trust, this delay will leave millions of farmed animals in cramped conditions for years… Source Despite publicly claiming to support animal welfare, the company has delayed its goals and failed to report meaningful progress on its existing promises.
Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively. Feral Chickens number in the thousands in Key West alone and that population has not been dented even as hundreds of birds are trapped and removed – in fact, in 2011 0ver 1,500 were captured and trucked to an organic farm in central Florida. Americans love chicken.
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248 Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention
Animal Person
JUNE 17, 2009
And that's when I get e-mails like this: Dear Mary I’m Caroline and I’m one of the Supporter Services team members for Compassion in World Farming. Having read your blogs I thought you might like to hear about Compassion in World Farming’s Bake with Compassion fundraising week. But that was back in 2006. Eat More Veal?
Prop 2 Passes in California
Critter News
NOVEMBER 5, 2008
4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. Prop 2 requires that factory farms provide enough space for animals to stand up, turn around and extend their limbs. It applies to breeding pigs, egg laying hens and veal calves.
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JULY 18, 2016
We are excited to share this new iniative from the ASPCA on behalf of farm animals.
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Major brands under fire for lagging on cage-free commitments
AnimalEquality.net
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Colombina uses 13,464,000 eggs per year, meaning that a fulfilled cage-free commitment would affect the lives of nearly 48,000 hens. Update 11/11/24: Colombina has officially reinstated its global cage-free commitment and is now reporting 40% across all brands. Animal Equality has teamed up with the Open… Source
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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism
Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products? Gene Baur, Director of Farm Sanctuary, adds that “Change of Heart provides fresh, research-based insight into how non-profits and individuals can more effectively create social change.”
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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Ostrich farming – A review and feasibility study of opportunities in the EU. Also, I learned that in the US , ostrich eggs are priced at $40-$75. Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. . Ostriches originated in Asia.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2011
Speaking of pregnant snakes, do sea snakes lay their eggs ashore like sea turtles or do they keep them internally until the young are ready to hatch/ be born, like some sharks? These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach. It seems like there is great diversity in this continent.
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Bird Surprises
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. Back in the truck, working on our back spasms, we drove a hundred yards south, then turned east, passing a farm house which had feeders out front, and where a flock of Bohemian Waxwings had been reported that same morning.
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244 What if the Public Truly Probed Animal Research Funding?
Critter News
OCTOBER 8, 2009
There's a reason for the security that keeps Beagle burn videos from surfacing like egg farm videos. It's in response to the arrest of Yale animal technician Raymond Clark for the murder of Annie Le, but makes some important points about animal research.
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Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2012
1, 2012, egg-laying hens across many European countries will live with fewer discomforts: The European Commission has officially implemented its ban on battery cages, the notoriously cramped cages used by many egg farmers and criticized by animal rights proponents and veterinarians who call them cruel and harmful to the birds' welfare.
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Things I didn’t know that I didn’t know about British bees
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2015
Wild bee species are vital to agriculture and a Cornell University study concluded that “ insect pollinators contributed $29 billion to US farm income in 2010″ and are “integral to food security in the United States”(quotes from response to RFI). A book mark was very useful to make the glossary quickly accessible.
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124 McDonalds Makes Positive Move to Help Sows
Critter News
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Animal rights advocates have singled out the crates, known as sow stalls, as inhumane, and several states have moved to ban or restrict their use not only in pork production, but also in the production of eggs and veal.
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100 Cepas de Loro: Pisco Puro Muscatel
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2019
The classic Peruvian recipe – allegedly first concocted in Lima by an American bartender named Victor Vaughen Morris in the early 1920s – is really a South American take on the American whisky sour, and calls for pisco, lime juice, simple syrup, ice, egg whites, and bitters.
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Royal Decree Issued in Spain Over Animal Welfare
Critter News
JUNE 10, 2011
Others have suggested that the amount of money allocated would only be enough to assist half the Spanish egg industry to convert. But some industry experts doubt Spain, a nation which has an unemployment rate above 20% and a stagnant economy, can afford to pay out €300m to farmers.
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From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
JULY 12, 2010
A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. Industrial confinement is cruel and senseless and will turn out to be, we hope, a relatively short-lived anomaly in modern farming.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
JULY 21, 2010
To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 20, 2010
15): I have one very simple piece of advice for consumers interested in higher-quality eggs from humanely treated chickens: stop buying eggs at the grocery store. The eggs we eat come from chickens that spend their days outside, scratching and eating grubs. To the Editor: Re " A Hen's Space to Roost ” (Week in Review, Aug.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
JULY 19, 2011
To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 25, 2010
15): We are glad to see an article describing the intensive confinement of egg-laying chickens, but we disagree when it says that animal advocates and consumers are “driving big changes” in the treatment of chickens. At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences.
From the Mailbag
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
The animal advocacy group Compassion Over Killing has created a new website to bring attention to the fact that Morningstar Farms continues to use "battery eggs" from caged birds in their products. Here is the link. Congrats on the new site launch, by the way.
Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do.
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Volunteer to help animals: 6 steps you can take today
Animal Equality
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Did you know the truth about factory farming was never meant to reach you? Behind closed doors, billions of animals endure conditions that would leave most people outraged. The system thrives on secrecy—but once the truth is out, there’s no turning back. Mother pigs spend their pregnancies in crates so small they can barely move.
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