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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. Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factoryfarm chickens. Chief economist? That's so cool!
4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factoryfarms by an overwhelming margin. Prop 2 requires that factoryfarms provide enough space for animals to stand up, turn around and extend their limbs. From the campaign website : (Nov.
For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. 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.)
Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factoryfarming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement.
Enactment of the bill will bring about the first federal law relating to the treatment of chickens used for food, the first federal law relating to the treatment of animals while on factoryfarms, and the first farmed animal protection legislation in more than 30 years.
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.
The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factoryfarms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here.
As the world moves toward raising the majority of animals in the unnatural setting of factoryfarms, it is likely that more, and worse, such pathogens will arise. What will it take for us, and our public health leaders, to question our addiction to meat and tolerance of factoryfarming?
Most people are shocked and appalled when they first read descriptions of factoryfarming and learn about the horribly inhumane conditions in which the billions of animals destined for dinner tables are raised, and they are even more appalled when they first see documentary footage of the institutional cruelties inherent in factoryfarming.
Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factoryfarming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer.
Many, if not most, of the meat eaters I know are deeply concerned about the fact that the animals they eat are raised in factoryfarm conditions. They realize that factoryfarming is inhumane. Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering.
His call for the end of factoryfarms (concentrated animal feeding operations) is courageous. Meat production may be cruel or inhumane, but it is not, literally, torturous. Better food creates better health. And yet our government is perversely encouraging food habits that negatively affect our health and our environment.
While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars. And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factoryfarms saved an estimated $3.9
The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factoryfarms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.
It is not in dispute that, in modern factoryfarms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements. Cross and Michael F.
As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factoryfarming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167). This includes refusing to support business firms that cause, or profit from, animal suffering.
He thinks that the treatment of animals in factoryfarms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factoryfarming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.
Paragraph #4 starts with: "Undeniably, neither I nor anyone I know advocates or even tolerates the inhumane treatment of farm animals." 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.
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