Critter News

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

The American Veterinary Medical Association did NOT support Proposition 2. Tags: proposition 2 california farm animal welfare avma. Now they want to be involved in the rule-making. If you want to know why they opposed it, here's a link to their reasoning.

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Critter News

JANUARY 29, 2009

I got curious today and googled "Jennifer Fearing," the woman who led the Yes on Proposition 2 campaign. Tags: proposition 2 california humane society farm animal welfare. It turns out that she was the former Humane Society Chief Economist. Pretty impressive bio (please note that the bio is from her time at HSUS).

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Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

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

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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. Not everyone has that luxury.

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Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

There is definitely a new tide in California, post Proposition 2. Tags: california bile farming farm animal welfare agribusiness food. Basically, it sounds like the ag committee will be including food safety and animal welfare concerns in their discussions. The ag industry does NOT like this.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

It also does a great job at profiling Jennifer Fearing who led the victory of Proposition 2. California really is at the forefront of animal welfare and this is an excellent article detailing what's going on in the State and the challenges animal welfare faces. She sounds amazing.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. Proposition 2 is a modest step that deserves voter support and extension to other states. Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Here is a Los Angeles Times story about California's Proposition 2, which passed yesterday. I'm ambivalent about the proposition. On the one hand, it improves the lives of many farm animals. In the long run, measures such as this may make things worse for farm animals.

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JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. Industrial confinement is cruel and senseless and will turn out to be, we hope, a relatively short-lived anomaly in modern farming.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

I actually read one headline asking whether this was the beginning of the end of commercial farming in California. But to big ag, it's just another step on a slippery slope started by the passage of Proposition 2. Tags: california farm animal welfare us agribusiness. A bit of an overreaction I think.

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