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Meeting this July in Denver, the AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) will consider new and revised policy proposals dealing with wolf hybrids, taildocking, and physical restraint of animals.
In this week's podcast ending January 30, 2010: **A Mercy for Animals video spurs calls for a ban on taildocking in the State of New York; **Animal rights activists try to stop construction of a bullfighting ring in Beijing; **A PETA protestor gets a pie in the face for protesting against the Canadian seal hunt; **And legislation is proposed in China (..)
While the decision did not ban any procedure or practice, “the Court further held that taildocking could not be considered humane, and [that] mutilations without anesthesia including castration, de-beaking and de-toeing could not be considered humane without some specific requirements to prevent pain and suffering,” the article notes.
Referring to battery-cage confinement, gestation-crate confinement, veal-crate confinement, and unanesthetized mutilations (including branding, castration, debeaking, tooth pulling, and taildocking) as "Acceptable Handling Practices" does not make those practices morally acceptable or humane.
In addition, the animals are subjected to excruciating mutilations – including branding, dehorning, debeaking, tooth pulling, taildocking, and castration – all performed without anesthesia. The noxious fumes from the accumulated urine and feces cause lung problems in many of the animals.
Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal taildocking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Tags: europe taildocking pigs factory farm agribusiness. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.)
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. In 48 farms, farmers had cut the tails off pigs to stop them biting each other, despite EU rules restricting tail-docking.
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