10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

And the magic factories are two neighbors, Green Cay Wetlands and Wakodahatchee Wetlands. We exit the car and enter magic factory number two. But to us locals from the El Dub (Lake Worth, FL) it refers to anywhere east of the Everglades and west of Congress Avenue. And this is where magic happens from time to time.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2015

The final site of the day was sewage ponds of the sugar factory by the town of Kovin. This sugar factory is closed for years already and there is no one to talk to, but building a nesting raft here would be of greatest importance. The Danube shallows are waterless.

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Stray Dog Factory Turtles Serbia 218

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

Whilst many use traditional gravel sites close to river beds, more and more are taking to man-made sites such as golf courses and even flat factory roofs. The latter offering superb protection from ground predators and providing many factory workers with a connection with nature all too rare for most.

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Factory Ireland Breeding Rescue 163

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This sounds wonderful. It will be in Arlington, VA at the end of October. Someday, if it becomes an annual event, I hope I can go.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Arlington Factory 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

The Humane Society makes it easy right here.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Obama 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

These owls are getting squeezed into smaller and smaller territories as developers take their habitat for homes, factories, office buildings and businesses. He flew across a busy street to another car dealership where it looks as if he is a frequent visitor. We need to protect their remaining habitat and spread the word of their predicament.

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California Owls 2013 Factory 203

Critter News

JUNE 29, 2010

Not the solution or end to factory farming, but if big ag can't rely on antibiotics, then they may have to rethink the filthy conditions of factory farms. Tags: antibiotics farm animal welfare factory farm. Animals would get sick much easier, possibly affecting the bottom line of profit above all. From Opposing Views.com.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 31, 2007

Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about factory farming. I have added the Factory Farm Map to the blogroll.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

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. The writer is Jennifer Fearing, the CHIEF ECONOMIST for the Humane Society.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

I admire these people tremendously, whether they go undercover on a factory farm or a research institute. Tags: animal abuse undercover investigation animal rights factory farm. This is very important work and an enlightening, though short, piece. I could never do what they do. I don't have the guts.

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Animal Rights Investigation Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.)

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Pigs Investigation Tail Docking Europe 100

Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry. Tags: Obama USDA farm animal welfare factory farm us agribusiness.

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Critter News

MAY 26, 2009

Very interesting opinion piece about how factory farms facilitate the rapid spread of viruses into the food supply. And we know that pumping animal feed full of antibiotics in factory farms has given us a new strain of MRSA. And we know that pumping animal feed full of antibiotics in factory farms has given us a new strain of MRSA.

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Swine Flu Meat Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Cows, pigs, and chickens suffer daily on factory farms, with abuse often ignored by authorities. Advocates say reforming the Mexican Constitution could change everything. Could this be a turning point…

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Protecting Animals Protection 97

Animal Person

DECEMBER 27, 2009

And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn't eat factory farmed animals. The significant problem with this book is that the solution to the problems posed (which begin with "On factory farms. ") could easily be some Farm Forward-endorsed small operation where many of the horrors of factory farming don't exist.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 31, 2008

I agree with Nicholas Kristof that factory farms will eventually be banned by law. I also agree that it will be a good thing. Addendum: Here are comments on Kristof's column.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

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. There are probably no happy animals in factory farming (ie. Factory farms are unlikely to be properly and regularly inspected by the USDA. Factory animals are voiceless victims. big corporate agribusiness.)

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

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. From the campaign website : (Nov.

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Prop 2 Wayne Pacelle Proposition 2 California 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

It's also a factory farm. The important word in the phrase "family farm" is the same word that is important in "factory farm." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights factory farms family farms. “I work with the hogs every day, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with gestation crates,” he said.

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Gestation Crates Farming Veal Crate Factory Farm 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. Tags: UK europe spain pigs factory farm. Investigators from Compassion in World Farming found 80 per cent of farms across five European countries engaging in illegal practices such as barren pens and routine tail-docking. Conditions are so bad, some pigs are resorting to cannibalism.

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Pigs Europe Investigation Factory Farm 100

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a Factory Farm." Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animal welfare factory farm animal welfare. Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said.

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Industry Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Welfare 100

Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

Tags: animal abuse eggs farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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Egg Farm Eggs Farming Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

The following year several more urban falcons were discovered, ranging from a pair on a factory chimney on the Cheshire/Lancashire border to a warehouse above the Mersey in Liverpool. Swansea was one of the first British towns to claim a successful pair when, in 1990, a pair bred on the Post Office Tower.

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Falcons Feral Tenant Eggs 203

Critter News

AUGUST 28, 2009

Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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Animal Welfare Farm Animal Farmed Animals Michigan 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Egg Farm Animal Cruelty 100

Critter News

APRIL 28, 2009

Tags: Swine Flu factory farm.

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Swine Flu Factory Farm Factory Farming Farming 100

Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages. This brings us one step closer to ending intense confinement of hens in factory farms. They are striking a blow against the cruel egg industry.

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Eggs 2009 Battery Cages Factory Farm 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

I am a firm supporter of reforming factory egg farming. Tags: proposition 2 eggs factory farm food chickens. I believe that chickens should have room to stretch and walk around. And I'm willing to pay for more expensive eggs if it allows for that. However, I'm also aware that I'm fortunate to have a job that allows me to pay for that.

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Eggs Battery Cages Proposition 2 Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2024

These binoculars were made at Leica’s factory in Portugal. I visited the factory a few years ago, and the quality control there is now first class. (I With hindsight this wasn’t a great move. The Leica had good optics and was light and compact, but wasn’t robust, and bits fell off.

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Austria Factory Germany Portugal 189

Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2009

You can find out tonight by watching HBO's new documentary, "Death on a Factory Farm." Death on a Factory Farm" chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. Ever wonder how the animals you eat are treated before they become your dinner?

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2020

Other areas in Lingang are starting to be covered with factories (Tesla) and residential buildings. While the threat of being captured in bird nets is getting lower thanks to the efforts of volunteers searching for and destroying nets, the amount of undisturbed coastline and reedbeds is shrinking dramatically.

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Wildlife Reserve Asia China Factory 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2023

I suspect that, in keeping with the ways of its classic, parking lot scavenging brethren, the bird spends a fair amount of time getting easy eats at inaccessible fish factories. We have had better looks at the Herring but somehow, the Ring-billed has evaded our optics.

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Costa Rica Factory Transported Fish 216

Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2009

Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Farm Animal Farmed Animals 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Proposition 2 will end some of the more horrendous practices of factory farming in California.

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Prop 2 Factory Farm Factory Farming Proposition 2 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I try to reach Ceda by phone, but when I naively switched my mobile back to factory settings, I lost quite a few numbers, his among them. Turning the key… still no traction! Since I have created this mud puddle by sinking into it, it surely has steep walls. The puddle has steep walls? But I have a collapsible spade in the trunk!

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Serbia Ducks Poland Kazakhstan 229

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2011

In fact, the photographer, Christoph Malin (who normally spends his time doing/photographing craziness on mountain bikes ) lives in the same village as our factory. But then again, those are some pretty hard acts to follow. So it is not just that the images are beautiful, it is also that they were taken right here! <<

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South Africa Factory Parrots Africa 173