Critter News

MARCH 22, 2009

Kudos for Russian leader Vladimir Putin for stopping the slaughter of seals. The ministry said: “This is a serious step forward to protect Russia’s biological diversity. Conservation groups have staged protests in 20 Russian cities this week, demanding an end to the slaughter.

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Critter News

MAY 3, 2009

Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. Judicial review of equine slaughter or processing facilities -- surety bond -- attorney fees -- venue. (1) Judicial review of equine slaughter or processing facilities -- surety bond -- attorney fees -- venue. (1)

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Critter News

JANUARY 23, 2009

Today, the man who trained Flipper for the popular 1960s TV series is crusading against the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, captured by hidden cameras in a chilling documentary called “The Cove” that’s being shown at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. That was 39 years ago. She believes dolphins have "fun" doing shows.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

“The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cyprus have now released the report on their bird protection camp during the peak of bird migration in autumn 2011.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Nick Rahall and Raul Grijalva have introduced a bill that would protect healthy wild horses from being killed by the BLM. He says it's unacceptable for wild horses that embody the spirit of the American West to be slaughtered. They don't have the text of it on Thomas.gov, but here is a link to HR 1018 on the site.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. What about others who work tirelessly to repopulate and protect wildlife, who live in fear this may happen to their colonies?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? Here's an interesting combination of great sentiment and horrible sentiment that involves two responses from the above list: "Online critics said it was hypocritical to protect only dogs and cats, and that the government should focus on human welfare before protecting animals."

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Here is the letter: I’ve just received an urgent report that another city in China is planning a mass cull to slaughter any unregistered dogs, strays, and even registered family dogs that are over 14 inches (35cm) tall. Can you imagine being forced to kill your own dog to save it from a more brutal slaughter?

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Animal Equality

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As an investigator, he’d walked blood-soaked slaughterhouses, seen animals crammed into metal boxes, and heard faint cries echoing down the slaughter line. Mike thought he’d seen it all. But nothing prepared him for that day. Newborn lambs huddled together, their tiny bodies trembling.

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Animal Equality

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

horses for slaughter, was reintroduced in Congress—just ahead of National Horse Protection Day on March 1. Contact your representatives and demand that they support the SAFE Act to ban horse slaughter once and for all: The SAFE Act promises to end the… Source Ready to take action for horses?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. I have always supported our wildlife management organizations for the hard work they do and for their dedication to wildlife protection. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2018

Hence, vultures rely on a feeding station where they are provisioned with slaughter house offal and occasional carrion. We approach a low limestone cliff topped with separate rock formations, like a medieval city wall topped with parapets that offered protection to defenders. And the cliff was white with bird droppings.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. Some key words are in English at the website, which gives clear instructions for streaming. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

People whose careers involve creating, fattening, transporting and slaughtering sentient nonhumans whose parts and secretions will then be used as food are having some financial difficulties. Along with the rest of the country. And that's being done as a favor of sorts, a gift to them by the benevolent NASDA.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. Or the absence of legal protection. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

David Jentsch says to his colleagues "your silence will no longer protect you" and his community of vivisectionists has decided to have a pro-torture and slaughter (i.e., research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community).

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

I’m familiar with the slaughter of herons, egrets, and other pretty birds for their feathers, but I didn’t know that shorebirds were also targets and that the gunning trade greatly contributed to the demise of the Eskimo Curlew.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs. Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. That depends largely on us, our priorities, and our allocation of resources.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Environmentalists recognize the meat industry as extremely ecodestructive – including fish, dairy, eggs, feed crops with their massive use of water & topsoil and toxic runoff killing rivers and oceans, and the killing of billions of free-living animals to protect farmed animals and feed crops.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 30, 2007

Horses destined for inhumane slaughter in the U.S. Because animal flesh sold for human consumption abroad must be inspected by a USDA inspector, the court ruling may mean that the few remaining horse-slaughtering plants in the U.S. A previous post on the "Horse Slaughter Bill" (H.R. is available here. is available here.

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Animal Equality

JANUARY 7, 2025

Thousands of animals were slaughtered, their final moments captured by Animal Equality’s… Source These images are here to tell the story: At Nepal’s 2024 Gadhimai Festival—the world’s largest animal sacrifice—investigators revealed what walls, smog, and police bans tried to hide.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We That exemption remains in force, despite Schwindaman's later attempts to overturn it.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

Utilitarians persuaded of the leading premise here should, I think, be willing to pay the higher prices, and to plump for protections of animals of the kind in question. And the other is taking up vegetarianism. But what about the vegetarian alternative? Here what one needs to do is calculate the pleasure, interest, satisfaction, etc.,

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., That is never humane.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Have you looked at images or videotapes of slaughter? If you haven't, then you are suppressing your sympathies, thereby protecting your moral principles from revision. Have you taken the time to investigate this? Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? This is bad faith.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

In order to protect himself, therefore, he is not likely to rest his case upon (an appeal to) the state and intensities of our feelings. What the vegetarian wants, surely, is that we should stop eating meat even if our liking for it exceeds our revulsion at the suffering endured on factory farms.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures. After two or three laying cycles when their egg production begins to wane, the layer hens are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and sent to slaughter, where they are processed into chicken soup and pet food.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And as the slaughtering of animals is not high tech, certainly no trade secrets would be at risk with the imposition of cameras. The federal government needs to recommit itself to putting boots on the ground in America and elsewhere to inspect and protect our food supply. I think most would, enthusiastically. 21, 2008

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

How far do we go in protecting them? Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. If we are not justified in eating mackerel ourselves, are we not also morally obligated to stop the slaughter brought on by the tuna?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements. Even those actively involved in the industry typically admit that these modern animal rearing practices cause animals severe pain and stress.

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