Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. Irv Bell's farm is a family farm. It's also a factory farm. And all of those are implicit in "farm."

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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. The documentary airs tonight (Monday, March 16) starting at 9:00 p.m.

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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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AnimalEquality.net

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

On September 5, 2024, the UK’s High Court granted Animal Equality permission to challenge the approval of the country’s first on-land salmon mega-farm. The farm–which aims to produce 5,000 tons of fish each year–would become one of the largest of its kind in the world.

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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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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.

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Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

From the Farm Sanctuary. For 25 years, Farm Sanctuary has relied on the Walk to support its mission to protect farm animals from cruelty and inspire change in the way society views and treats farm animals. Farm Sanctuary’s shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for nearly 1,000 rescued farm animals.

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Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

While the Humane Society was pretty happy with Vilsack as Obama's pick for the Department of Agriculture, the Farm Sanctuary is wary. Bauer is the president and co-founder of the Farm Sanctuary. Tags: Obama USDA farm animal welfare factory farm us agribusiness.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

In other words, the proverbial happy farm animal. However, the factory farm system we have in any country does not lend itself to either of the two criteria. And if you ever drive around an egg farm, hog farm, slaughterhouse, feeding lot, etc., There are probably no happy animals in factory farming (ie.

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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.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

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

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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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AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Update September 2024 – The European Commission released a farming report after eight months of discussions on agriculture. It recommended revising EU animal protection laws and phasing out cages, but it didn’t set any requirements.

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Critter News

AUGUST 28, 2009

Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2012

California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!

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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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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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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

AUGUST 17, 2008

Thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this information from August 8. In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.

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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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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

It's in response to the HBO film "Death on a Factory Farm." 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. "Our I have a hard time with the logic of that statement.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. 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. Most farms made widespread but legal use of metal cages for confining pregnant pigs.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The problem of the unjust use of farm animals is large, growing, historical, institutionalized, governmentally encouraged, and fundamentally unregulated at either the state or federal level. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. It also provides tax incentives to factory-farmers.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2009

There are no happy farm animals, you liars. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. They are fighting back due to all the information and images that have made it to the public sphere. And people are seeing it. So, now you just try to spend more money to spread more lies. We need to play offense."

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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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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. Tags: battery hens eggs farm animal welfare. They are striking a blow against the cruel egg industry.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

The Humane Society makes it easy right here.

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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. July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

A coalition of animal protection groups consisting of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Farm Sanctuary, and the Humane Farming Association (HFA), intervened in the case to ensure that the interests of animals and the public were represented.

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Critter News

APRIL 28, 2009

Tags: Swine Flu factory farm.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Animal Equality in Mexico is shaping the future for farmed animals with legislative reform. Advocates are working on two levels—reshaping the food system and plant-based options nationally, while strengthening farm rules locally. With rich emotional lives and unbreakable family bonds, farmed animals deserve to be protected.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2011

From the Farm Sanctuary. Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. Good news.although there had to be pressure exerted from advocates.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Veal is especially cruel, even for factory farming, although now I think foie gras is a strong competitor. Bo Obama celebrated his birthday with a doghouse cake made out of veal. When I was still a meat-eater, the two foods I would not touch were veal and lamb. Certainly disappointed in the Obamas for such a poor choice of "cake."

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

On the animal front, there is definitely a message that factory farming is unsustainable, and that subsistence farming is and was preferable; there is a vague if-we-did-it-differently-it-might-be-sustainable message. , not deeply of course, but sufficiently so you get a clear picture that is impossible to deny. But that's me.

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