Critter News

MAY 26, 2009

Very interesting opinion piece about how factory farms facilitate the rapid spread of viruses into the food supply. We know that bird flu developed in the world's vast poultry farms. And we know that pumping animal feed full of antibiotics in factory farms has given us a new strain of MRSA. From the Independent.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

However, the factory farm 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 factory farming (ie. Animals are raw materials to process for product.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Meat, however, purchased at the supermarket, externally packaged and internally laced with petrochemicals, fattened in feed lots, slaughtered impersonally, and, in general, mechanically processed from artificial insemination to microwave roaster, is an affront not only to physical metabolism and bodily health but to conscience as well.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2010

asphyxiated); they die from lack of oxygen, or anoxia, which is a painless process. Tags: meat PETA farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. CAK removes oxygen from the birds' atmosphere while they are still in their transport crates. The birds are not "gassed" (i.e.,

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Here are some of my favorite quotes: "For thousands of years, farmers took their cues from natural processes. Ever, in fact.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

There's no "compassion" in the process. No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. No argument here.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

We can thank factory farming for yet another antibiotic-resistant supergerm: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). All evidence points to factory farms. Factory farms are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where animals are raised intensively and permanently confined in warehouses and sheds.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

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, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. It wouldn’t be a good reason to cause them to suffer in the process, but it would be a good reason to raise and kill them for food.] Premise (4) is widely acknowledged. The answer, according to the ADA, is “No.”

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming 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.

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