Critter News

MARCH 29, 2012

PETA is not convinced. California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights." than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare." First of all, does he really believe that piffle?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most informative for a discussion about vegan advocacy is the section about the animal rights movement (and unfortunately he alternately calls it “animal protection” and also refers to welfare, perhaps because of the Humane Research Council’s study that people prefer the word “protection”). no one is 100% vegan), you “do what you can do.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

As you can see here , PETA does not even address these issues at all, while portraying themselves as indeed giving a damn. People interested in animal welfare who are against this idea are completely missing the point here. Obviously its perfectly fine to concentrate on one particular problem (i.e.

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Critter News

MARCH 15, 2009

PETA has filed complaints about this place for years, but it's the first warning they've actually generated. Tags: medical research PETA animal welfare us. The lab reported the incidents to the National Institutes of Health, said Jim Newman, a spokesman for Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the center.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2010

They received citations for animal welfare infractions, although apparently few of these infractions overlap with PETA claims from an undercover investigation. Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA. You decide. From the Deseret News.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I realize that the most humane method of treating chickens is to not kill them for food.BUT, as long as there is still a demand for their meat, PETA is advocating "Controlled-Atmosphere Killing" as an improvement over current methods of electric immobilization. Tags: meat PETA farm animal welfare factory farm chickens.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

It's about George the 140-year-old lobster who was set free by PETA. Even before the New Scientist study, the European Food Safety Authority's Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare had concluded that lobsters and crabs are capable of experiencing pain and distress and are worthy of legislative protection.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

Why change for welfare purposes if there is no clear economic benefit? Mulesing, in which woolgrowers surgically remove parts of merino lambs' rears to prevent potentially fatal flystrike, has sparked demonstrations and litigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Such an awful practice.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

22): PETA is proud to see that its hard work behind the scenes with Bell & Evans and other companies to encourage implementation of this new, less cruel form of slaughter is finally coming to fruition. To the Editor: Re “ New Way to Help Chickens Cross to Other Side ” (front page, Oct.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

This morning, during the Facebook discussion, Engber writes (and the first sentence is reason alone to chime in): Bring on the PETA hotties! But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper.

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