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

AUGUST 17, 2008

The court upheld regulations permitting pig and calf confinement, the transport of ill and injured cattle, and force molting of birds. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm us. The plaintiffs plan to pressure the NJDA to abandon them when the regulations are revised.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. So many people I know get really guilty when they hear about conditions at factory farms, but then just keep eating the same things. From an opinion piece in the Times of India. Da da da da!

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

The kids made tortillas from scratch and then went to a factory to see how professionals do it. Any other factories on the agenda? The site says food production factories are included , but I doubt that means those involving the slaughter of animals.). I don't think of that as a restriction. fun" said one (female) child.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. It allows you to swoop in with an alternative to the disgraceful human behavior that is factory farming and provide a kindler, gentler way to partake of the flesh of others. It's just not right.

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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. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34). Ever, in fact. In other words, "EATING ANIMALS" is a remarkably palatable book for the masses.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

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 factory farms. With successes like these, factory farmers do have cause for worry. The full text of the amendment is available here.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

Supreme Court rules on health care challenge| GPS tracking "The Federal Meat Inspection Act regulates slaughterhouses' handling and treatment of non-ambulatory pigs from the moment of their delivery through the end of the meat production process," wrote Justice Elena Kagan.

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AnimalEquality.net

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Update 10/13/24: Volunteers gathered outside an Aldi store in Dallas, Texas, using megaphones and a life-size gestation crate to take a stand for mother pigs. Flyers were handed out to shoppers, and a leaflet was given to the store manager to pass along to corporate leadership.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. 11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factory farming. To the Editor: Re “ The Protein Pyramid ” (editorial, Nov. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In this film, we see farmers interacting with the animals they will eventually transform into food (chickens, pigs and cattle). The farmers in the film confront very difficult questions posed by the filmmaker about why they think their approach to processing of meat is different than that of factory farming.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 26, 2007

But does giving pigs more room change the way they are viewed? Someone might argue that there is no incompatibility between (1) working to decrease animal suffering and (2) working toward the abolition of factory farming. What do you think of this ? Indeed, doesn't it entrench the idea that they are resources for human use?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

Thus far, the state ballot initiatives and agreements that will expand space for chickens (as well as for gestating pigs and veal calves) are really very minor. At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences. At most, chickens will be guaranteed room to spread their wings.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

From the perspective of the land ethic a herd of cattle, sheep, or pigs is as much or more a ruinous blight on the landscape as a fleet of four-wheel drive off-road vehicles. But this is not true of cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens. It would make almost as much sense to speak of the natural behavior of tables and chairs.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. Why was a dog more worthy of not being dinner than a pig? A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

We have become the pigs, and we are paying the price with our health. What is wrong is factory farms. 27, 2008 The writer is a pig farmer. Whatever happened to the Sunday supper, while every other day is potato stew or corn chowder? Having a roast or baked chicken used to be for special occasions. We reap what we sow.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. 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. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. I have visited many of the grotesque factory farms that now corrupt our rural landscapes.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I'm no fan of McDonalds, but any little bit of help is progress. Here's an excerpt. For the full story, check out this link to the New York Times article.

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2011

Safeway and Kroger have announced they're halting all purchases of the farm's pork. Mercy for Animals is trying to convince Costco to do the same. News story is from the end of June. Almost let that one slip by!

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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. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.) Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. In one of the biggest undercover inquiries into pig-farming, CIWF visited 60 farms across five big pork-producing states, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Most farms made widespread but legal use of metal cages for confining pregnant pigs.

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AnimalEquality.net

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Between 2023 and 2024, Animal Equality investigators documented conditions inside a pig slaughterhouse in Cremona, Italy. This facility–owned by a company called Belli–slaughters thousands of pigs each year. Veterinarian Enrico Moriconi, who reviewed the footage… Source

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AnimalEquality.net

JANUARY 29, 2025

Scotland’s Rural Affairs and Islands Committee has released a scathing report of the salmon industry, intensifying scrutiny across the U.K. Using evidence from Animal Equality, the report revealed widespread disease, lice outbreaks, and alarming death rates.

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