Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Australian Dairy Farmers says calves can be left unfed for 30 hours before slaughter but the RSPCA says the practice is "cruel". Australian Dairy Farmers animal health and welfare chairman David Basham, said studies had shown "no adverse affects on welfare up to 30 hours".

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

PETA and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) are holding a joint news conference this week, and I would like to offer you an exclusive advance scoop on it. Both groups will be protesting the seal hunt using the Olympic torch ceremony as the backdrop.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Department of Agriculture (USDA)-approved slaughter method that is currently used to kill 75 percent of turkeys and 25 percent of chickens in the United Kingdom and 10 percent of all birds in the European Union. Tags: meat PETA farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Controlled-atmosphere killing is a U.S.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. I didn't have to do the slaughtering to know what it feels like to have participated in something for a good chunk of my life that wasn't right.

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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 Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

That leaves us with animal welfare, which I do think we are genuinely interested in, mostly because of the myriad videos, documentaries, books and websites that have made it tough to avoid over the past few years. I wrote often about such farmer/authors and found their rationalizations quite creepy. That's respect.

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Critter News

JUNE 6, 2012

This article reaffirms my belief that it's more humane to slaughter horses in the US than to ship them for slaughter to Canada or Mexico. I don't like it either way, but one is better than the other for sure.

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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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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. There is an abundance of information on the web about undercover investigations, livestock conditions, slaughter procedures, etc. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e., welfare") is the best that any of us can ever hope for, and of course what is a change in the way I kill you other than a change in the method by which you die. Frankly, we don't know whether or not welfare reform will lead to the abolition of the use of sentient nonhumans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife? Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?&# But I do think this issue of hunting sandhill cranes goes beyond the right to hunt. It brings to question the purpose of wildlife management.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism. The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting !

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility. This is the message of animal welfare--there is nothing inherently unjust about bringing animals into this world for your own use and/or profit. It's okay to choose violence when you don't need to.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

Yesterday , Abby wrote: Off topic, but I was wondering if you have any advice for those of us who are highly emotionally sensitive and also interested in animal welfare issues? I get so sad when I hear about the mistreatment of animals that it really affects me, but at the same time I want to be able to create change in the world.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Dr. 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., Animal Testing "). research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community).

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper. Part IV: Brown Dogs and Red Herrings.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act. Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

Just days before Barbaro was humanely put down, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act was reintroduced in Congress. In an incredible juxtaposition to the fanfare of Barbaro, more than 100,000 horses were slaughtered last year in the United States and shipped to Europe and Japan for human consumption.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. Stenholm is a spokesperson for the "Horse Welfare Coalition"—a quintessential illustration of doublespeak, for the Horse Welfare Coalition is an inappropriately named organization that is working to keep horse slaughter legal in the United States.

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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 Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

The number of chickens, turkeys, pigs, cattle and other animals raised and slaughtered in the United States has been growing steadily for decades. This comes at an enormous cost to animal welfare, the environment and of course public health. In 1950, each American consumed, on average, 144 pounds of animal flesh a year.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. If we are not justified in eating mackerel ourselves, are we not also morally obligated to stop the slaughter brought on by the tuna? David Peters New York, Nov.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com , in which Rep. A prime example of this is our concern for the welfare of animals in agriculture.". He is letting his attachment to eating animals and his attachment to his constituents profiting from their slaughter cloud his decision making. Translation?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

As an Illinois state senator, he backed at least a dozen animal protection laws, including those to strengthen the penalties for animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering, and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.

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