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Animals News tagged with Pigs

Sign Farm Sanctuary's Petition for the Pigs ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pigs, suffering, protection, environment )

Cher
- 8 days ago - change.org
Pigs are highly intelligent animals, as anyone who has ever been acquainted with one will tell you. The suffering they endure in our country, every day, is unconscionable.
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PETA Reward Offer Helps Secure 11-Year Prison Sentence for Pug Torturer
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pigs, tortured, AnimalCruelty, suffering, protection, environment )

Cher
- 10 days ago - blog.peta.org
Every day, PETA receives reports from across the country detailing hideous acts of cruelty to animals for which law enforcement officials have no leads. Very often, PETA will offer a reward for information leading to an arrest, knowing that witnesses
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ACTION ALERT: Tell DailyCandy That Pigs Are NOT Good Gifts!!
Animals  (tags: pigs, not gifts, daily candy, animal welfare )

Simone
- 10 days ago - all-creatures.org
Pigs can make wonderful companions, but no animal should be given as a gift without due consideration to their needs - pigs are not realistic companion animals for most people. You can read about the miniature pig phenomenon here. Royal Dandies are not
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Victory! Major Hawaii Importer Vows to Stop Importing Live Pigs for Slaughter
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pigs, importing, slaughter, AnimalCruelty, suffering, protection )

Cher
- 11 days ago - secure3.convio.net
The primary importer of pigs to the island of Oahu, Hawaii Food Products, has indicated to the Handle with Care coalition that it will not import live pigs to Hawaii as of April!
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Urge Pennsylvania to Take a Firm Stand Against Factory Farming Animal Cruelty ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, pigs, factory farms, environment, suffering, protection )

Cher
- 23 days ago - animalrights.change.org
A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation reveals unconscionable cruelty to mother pigs and their young piglets at a Hatfield Quality Meat supplier - "Country View Family Farms," in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The hidden camera video provides
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Ask North Dakota State University to End the Use of Live Pigs in Trauma Training Courses ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pigs, live labs, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, suffering )

Cher
- 23 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Please take a minute to let Philip Boudjouk, Ph.D., know that you want North Dakota State University (NDSU) to stop its use of live animals in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses. In an April 15, 2009, Fargo Forum article, Dr. Boudjouk was
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Investigation Exposes Factory-Farmed Cruelty
Animals  (tags: australia, laws, farm animals, pigs, factory animals, abused, tortured, imprisoned )

Simone
- 27 days ago - animalsaustralia.org
In Australia it is legal to keep breeding pigs in individual metal and concrete crates for their entire 4 month pregnancy despite these cruel devices having been banned in the UK for a decade. Animals are so tightly confined that they cannot turn around
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Inside the Pork Industry
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pigs, cruelty, suffering, protection, environment, AnimalCruelty )

Cher
- 32 days ago - all-creatures.org
A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation (November 2009) reveals unconscionable cruelty to mother pigs and their young piglets at a Hatfield Quality Meat supplier - "Country View Family Farms," in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The hidden camera
3 comments
USDA Confirms H1N1 in Minnesota Pigs
Animals  (tags: pigs, sickness, h1n1 virus )

Lone
- 61 days ago - sacbee.com
WASHINGTON -- At least one pig from Minnesota has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday, the first case of a pig contracting the virus in the United States.
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Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, Egypt, pigs, killed, environment, protection )

Cher
- 88 days ago - nytimes.com
It is unlikely anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling with a garbage problem so severe it has managed to incite its weary residents and command the attention of the
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Whistleblower Helps PETA Get USDA Citations Issued
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pigs, killing, suffering, protection )

Cher
- 101 days ago - blog.peta.org
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that killing a pig to mimic a human fall is inhumane and unnecessary, but that's exactly what Linda Weseman of Gainesville-based Weseman Engineering Inc. did.
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State Fairs, Farms Take Steps To Protect Pigs From Us ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pigs, swine flu, humans, environment, protection )

Cher
- 108 days ago - change.org
Most of the concern about swine flu has focused on preventing humans from spreading it to others. But at state fairs across the country, animal health officials have been taking steps to protect pigs from getting the new H1N1 virus from people.
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Harley's Feet And His Pillow
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, pigs, AnimalCruelty, suffering, protection )

Cher
- 111 days ago - all-creatures.org
Harley could not know that it would be his grossly overgrown feet that would be his salvation. When his kind-hearted but neglectful owner tried to cut them - it was his screams that alerted a neighbor and caused her to call the authorities.
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PETA Asks North Carolina Governor to Turn Prison Into Pig Empathy Museum
Animals  (tags: animals, pigs, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 121 days ago - blog.peta.org
Considering how factory farms (mis)treat pigs--cramming them into filthy pens and confining mothers to gestation crates--it's not hard to see farms as porcine prison
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On Sows and Piglets
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, pigs, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 122 days ago - animalplacesanctuary.blogspot.com
The first time I met a pig, she was in a farrowing crate inside a temperature controlled room. It was clean and sterile (we had to wear scrubs and boots to enter). There were six sows surrounded by piglets. She could not turn around.
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