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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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

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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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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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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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

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). Tags: california farm animal welfare factory farm us.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Surprising to me at least. The editorial advocates a national standard that establishes humane standards in all parts of the country.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 18, 2016

The Shop With Your Heart initiative gives consumers the resources to recognize, locate and demand meaningfully welfare-certified meat, eggs and dairy products as well … Continue reading → The post Shop With Your Heart appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

From the 6th -10th of July we are asking everyone to get their aprons on and bake with free-range or organic eggs. 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. But that was back in 2006.

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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. There are alternatives we think are better for the welfare of sows.”.

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10,000 Birds

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. Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed. These books are concerned with behavior. Baicich and Colin J.

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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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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production. Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Moreover, pigs are not the only ones that would be happier with welfare improvements: according to a nationwide poll commissioned by the ASPCA, a majority of Americans want farm animals to be treated in a way that inflicts the least amount of pain and suffering possible. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

On the lactovo variety, eating animal products, e.g., milk and eggs, would not be considered morally wrong, although eating certain animals would be; on the vegan variety, eating animal products would be morally forbidden as well. There is, of course, nothing incompatible with using both kinds of considerations in justifying vegetarianism.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I decided to look online for some information regarding the "Organic Free Range Eggs" that Trader Joe's, my favorite store, sells. A Note About Eggs At Trader Joe's we listen to what our customers tell us about the choices we give them. Thanks to their valued feedback, in 2005 we made an important change in our egg selection.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Sometime soon, David Radlo of Radlo Foods says his sign in front of the former DeCoster Egg Farm will be coming down and all his business at the massive egg operation in Turner will come to an end. Instead, Eggland's Best says it will get classic brown eggs from other locations. Here's a link to the investigative video.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. For example, when the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It depicted a Common Loon ( Gavia immer ) sitting on eggs on a seemingly crude nest. To know birds is to value them; to value birds is to be devoted to their welfare. Common Loon ( Gavia immer) This was a different artist. It caught my full attention and entranced me.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs. Tags: zoos welfare violations animal welfare. Incidents include a hippo who died in transport from Denver and a Turkmenian markhor, a species of wild goat, hung itself at the zoo after becoming trapped by a rope.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

And if you ever drive around an egg farm, hog farm, slaughterhouse, feeding lot, etc., Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. There is an abundance of information on the web about undercover investigations, livestock conditions, slaughter procedures, etc. There are many gruesome pictures too.

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