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From the Farm Sanctuary. For 25 years, Farm Sanctuary has relied on the Walk to support its mission to protect farmanimals from cruelty and inspire change in the way society views and treats farmanimals. For more information on the Walk and how to register, please visit walkforfarmanimals.org.
Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. Currently, approximately 50 million laying hens are confined at only 48 square inches per bird.
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. This NewYork Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit.
I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial FarmAnimal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. FarmAnimal Welfare, ASPCA NewYork, Feb. Hurst hammers three times). That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,
To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s newfarmanimal welfare law presages what is coming for all farmanimal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farmanimal protection group.'
9 editorial “ Justice on the Farm ” describing a “visit to a duck farm in Sullivan County where workers toil through exhausting shifts to force feed poultry for foie gras” encapsulates one of the fundamental problems facing agriculture today: the perpetual chain of exploitation that occurs on many farms.
9) does little to advance the debate on farmanimal housing. Decisions on how best to house farmanimals should be left to the family farmers, like me, who care for their animals every day. To the Editor: “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct.
Most Americans, by contrast, join with us in demanding better regulations to safeguard farmanimals and more credible inspections of our food. Nocera is anything but a soothsayer. He has simply rehashed the party line from the slaughterhouse industry.
The Episcopal Church embraces a resolution that specifically addresses puppy mills and factory farms. The United Methodist Church supports the humane treatment of farmanimals and calls for the protection of endangered species. The Catholic Church is not alone among major religions on this issue.
But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farmanimals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Barry Rehfeld NewYork, Nov.
This doesn’t ring true, suggesting as it does that we actually ask the animals to make a sacrifice for our sake. What we are doing is raising and then killing animals so that we can eat them. If we’re going to raise farmanimals and then kill them to eat them, we should say so. They don’t volunteer.
9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of FarmAnimal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. To the Editor: Re “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production.
For the full story, check out this link to the NewYork Times article. I'm no fan of McDonalds, but any little bit of help is progress. Here's an excerpt.
Keith, On Sunday, October 4, Farm Sanctuary held the largest Walk for FarmAnimals in NewYork City history. Nearly 700 registrants converged on Central Park, making the event quite possibly the largest gathering of people standing in solidarity with farmanimals ever.
A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty. A jury in West Haverstraw deliberated less than two hours before convicting Robert Everle of all 13 charges of torturing, injuring and starving animals. And people wonder why I'm so disappointed by humans.
In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. Farmanimals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for.
The NewYork Times ' Nicholas D. His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. Kristof writes of the "decent and varied lives" that small farms provide animals with. Kristof frustrates me. I'm not sure how that equals soul.
They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farmanimal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them.
Animals rescued from so-called humane farming establishments have been found in horrific condition. Our relationship with animals should be based on respect and caring, and that begins with not eating them. Irene Muschel NewYork, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.
Indeed, if public sympathy is changing in China regarding how we treat animals raised and killed for food, as it is here in the United States, then we can only expect future improvements in the welfare of farmanimals. Wayne Pacelle President and Chief Executive, Humane Society of the United States Washington, Aug.
To start a fun new Thanksgiving tradition, and to choose your adopted turkey, please vvisit adoptaturkey.org or call the Turkey Adoption Hotline at 1-888-SPONSOR. Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farmanimal protection organization, promotes legislative, policy, and individual lifestyle changes to help farmanimals.
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