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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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Critter News
OCTOBER 16, 2009
Here is an interesting 10 minute documentary about the effect of growing cheap animal feed in Latin America for European factory farms and how it effects the environment and people. Tags: factory farm.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 7, 2008
A new study, published online in Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, suggests that animal assisted therapy for people with mental disorders can be effective with farm animals. After six months of animal assisted therapy with farm animals, all patients reported significantly increased coping skills.
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Critter News
APRIL 7, 2010
Tags: animal abuse eggs farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Another undercover video from the Humane Society.
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Critter News
AUGUST 15, 2010
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. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.
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JULY 3, 2010
Animal welfare groups led by the Humane Society of the United States have agreed to abandon a fall ballot issue against animal cruelty as part of a deal with state farm groups brokered by Gov. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 2, 2009
World Farm Animals Day was today. Tags: depressed farm animal welfare. Perhaps it's because of gloomy October or maybe it's because I'm getting over the flu, but I felt very sad. There was a picture on the bus commemorating the event with a picture of a cow looking, dare I say it, noble and long-suffering. How depressing.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2010
Katie Couric did a story on the use of antibiotics on factory farms in the US and the potential harm to humans. Of course, the question remains as to whether these animals should be in these factory farming conditions in the first place, regardless of antibiotics' use. This occurred a week or so ago.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 14, 2008
They've issued a report that throws a negative light on the EPA trying to ELIMINATE EVEN MORE REGULATION of factory farms. Some huge livestock farms produce more raw waste than cities as large as Philadelphia or Houston. Tags: EPA environment factory farm us. Deregulation is EVERYWHERE.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2009
Many believe that the solution to our wild fish problems is to promote farmed alternatives. Here's an article spotlighting farmed fishing in Chile. Eat farmed fish and create other environmental perils. Tags: fisheries chile fish latin america environment. It's really damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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Critter News
AUGUST 28, 2009
Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. It looks like Michigan's Big Ag is afraid they could end up with their own Proposition 2.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Tags: farm animal welfare. Lest we forget their suffering.
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OCTOBER 9, 2008
Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty pigs farm animal welfare.
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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
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 31, 2009
Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. The Humane Society and other groups oppose it as a power grab by big agriculture to prevent another Proposition 2 (the initiative passed last year in California to improve standards for farm animal care.) It's an issue to follow though.
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APRIL 13, 2009
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. This is really interesting. How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act?
Critter News
APRIL 11, 2009
Produced by Compassion in World Farming. Conditions for farm animals will not change until meat-eaters start demanding changes themselves. Conditions for farm animals will not change until meat-eaters start demanding changes themselves. Tags: UK meat pigs. Don't live in a cloud.wake up!
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
The raid to which Viehl pleaded guilty took place at the McMullin mink farm in South Jordan in August 2008. Rydalch said the raid consisted of releasing minks and spray-painting parts of the farm, including a barn. She said the plea agreement "stated the damage and loss to real and personal property at the farm exceeded $10,000."
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Critter News
DECEMBER 28, 2009
Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare. My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Spain is much more advanced than Portugal in this area, but both need improvement (as do we all.).
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Critter News
APRIL 28, 2009
Tags: Swine Flu factory farm. You can read all about the horrible things Smithfield Foods has done in the US in this long Rolling Stone article. I can only imagine how things are run in Mexico.
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Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
Please note that the illegal bile farm was Taiwanese-owned. Tags: taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine bear bile china asia. Moon bears are rare, which makes this all the sadder. Again, the China connection. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. Thank Animals Asia for the rescue.
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Animal Person
MARCH 24, 2009
I' m concerned about Maple Farm Sanctuary , whose founders are two of the seven subjects in our new film , and I was wondering if you'd be willing to reach out through your blog to let people know that the sanctuary is in a financial tight spot right now. Late last night I received this message from Jenny Stein.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2012
In fact, I’m about ready to drop from exhaustion because of the 14th annual Chicken Inferno; here’s why… Details about the event will come later in the week, but for now I’ll tag Eastern Meadowlark as my Best Bird of the Weekend.
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DECEMBER 6, 2018
The mapping exercise works particularly well with birds confined to a specific habitat (Baranda fish farm S49396968 and Pecena slatina S49396887 ). 10000birds.com/tag/serbia ). Very large flocks of Corn Buntings were contacted in Centa fish farm ( S49396841 ). A Moustached Warbler at Baranda fish farm ( S49396968 ).
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
As I’ve switched over to paid corporate birding (doing bird surveys for companies that want to put up wind farms or transmission lines), I’ve been fascinated by the world that has been opened to me and differences from the bird feeding world.
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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
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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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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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
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. I'd never heard of them before. I'm very impressed by their courage and tenacity.
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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.
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!
100 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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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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OCTOBER 19, 2008
Thanks to an email from Farmed Animal Net for this information. These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. In Mexico, many farms are being run as they were 3 or 4 decades ago, although there are some more modern large facilities. So are egg corporations.
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AUGUST 17, 2008
Again, thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this update on California's proposition 2. The action prompted many farmed animal vets to leave CVMA and form the Association of California Veterinarians, which subsequently voted to oppose the ballot initiative, reports Feedstuffs.
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OCTOBER 11, 2009
Animal activists released 10 thousand mink from two fur farms in Denmark. Media in Denmark have reported that more than 10,000 mink were released from cages at Danish fur farms this week. Then, early on October 9, 5000 mink were freed from cages at a farm in Fousing. Tags: ALF.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Another nasty farm animal abuse story. Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre. Overlooked this one. Whatever you think about PETA, I admire them for exposing this crap. It's even got Chuck Jolley from the Cattle Network riled up. Find another line of work. Find another line of work. It will be too late.
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APRIL 24, 2009
We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. I'm not arguing about the methods as I'm not a veterinarian, but it's a good example of the clinical discussion of costs when it comes to managing farm animal health. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness.
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Critter News
JANUARY 28, 2010
Tags: New York tail docking farm animal welfare. Just awful. More great undercover work though by Mercy for Animals.
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OCTOBER 4, 2008
They rescue farm pigs and pot-bellied pigs,farm animals, dogs, cats, you name it. Tags: animal sanctuary pot-bellied pigs. Pigs Peace Sanctuary is a wonderful place. We've visited it.
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Critter News
JUNE 28, 2010
Tags: seattle pacific northwest farm animal welfare chickens. Silly piece in a way about the battle between people who want urban chickens and those who don't.
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