AVMA News

JUNE 17, 2024

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) continues to threaten deer and elk populations as it has been detected in free-ranging cervids in 34 states and four provinces and in captive cervid facilities in 19 states and three provinces.

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Free Range Deer California Fish 417

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

He doesn’t recognize the public health and ecological harms caused by industrial food animal production methods, including increased antibiotic resistance, polluted drinking water, huge fish kills and impaired air quality leading to respiratory illness. We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens?

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

2, 2009 To the Editor: While Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article demonstrates our folly in oversimplifying solutions to many of our challenges and offers many viable solutions to sustaining our lifestyles in generations to come, she leaves out one very green practice: hunting and fishing. Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J., Indeed, in Ms.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York San Antonio Meat 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service , there are about 10 billion breeding birds in the US. A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 So keep that in mind.

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Killing Cats Fish Feral Cats 274