Farm Sanctuary and Welfare - Animal Rights Zone

Farm Sanctuary Wary about Tom Vilsack for USDA

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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Hope for Hen Welfare

Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. 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.

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Support Farm Sanctuary!

Critter News

JUNE 15, 2011

Here's a book that you can buy about rescued farm animals and their stories. Love this group! It should be inspiring and it's a great way to support an extraordinary organization.

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition.

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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

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. For more information on the Walk and how to register, please visit walkforfarmanimals.org.

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Update on National Meat Association vs. Brown

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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Adopt a Turkey Next Month

Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Farm Sanctuary has a cool "Adopt-a-Turkey" project. I definitely want to do this.

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Ohio to Phase Out Veal Crates

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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Time.com Article on the Morals of Eating Meat

Critter News

MARCH 30, 2011

Gene Bauer from Farm Sanctuary appears in this article. Pretty intense, but I hope people read it. There is a disturbing hedonism to eating. I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. We just don't think about where that flesh came from.and most of us don't care.

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Do Chickens Feel Empathy?

Critter News

MARCH 22, 2011

Now, I think they're wonderful and we sponsor Camilla the Chicken through Farm Sanctuary's animal sponsorship program. The research is from the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. I used to hate chickens as a child and thought they were irritating.

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On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals.

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Are Farm Animals Usually Killed in a Humane Manner?

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

I highly recommend Farm Sanctuary's issue page.short and to the point.) There are probably no happy animals in factory farming (ie. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. Here are my main issues (again, there is a ton of information out there. big corporate agribusiness.)

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From Today's New York Times

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JANUARY 7, 2015

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.'

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