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Animals News tagged with factory farming

Tell the USDA That Factory Farming Isn't "Natural"- Take Action!!!
Animals  (tags: animalcruelty, AnimalWelfare, slaughter, Factory Farming, labelling, USDA )

Tierney
- 37 days ago - farmsanctuary.org
Farm Sanctuary spoke up, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is listening. In 2007, we formally petitioned the USDA to consider the treatment and living conditions of farm animals when creating rules allowing producers to label food
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"Painless" Suffering : Anything to Keep the Consumption Rate Going....
Animals  (tags: animals, factory farming, suffering, pain, AnimalWelfare, environment )

Cher
- 54 days ago - arphilosophia.blogspot.com
This article proposes that, rather than eliminate (or at least reduce) meat consumption, stop nonhuman animal testing, and stop genetic engineering and its massive negative effects on animals and the environment, that we should instead genetically
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Is Killing Painlessly Okay?
Animals  (tags: factory farming, farm animals, slaughter, animal welfare, animal activists )

Simone
- 70 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Is my death a harm to me? It is a profound question. If I were to die today (painlessly because suffering is bad), would I be harmed in some way? The case of nonhuman animal death is similarly profound. In the case of my death, we may not reason our way
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Why Factory Farming Is a Serious Problem : Animal Holocaust
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, factory farming, environment, suffering, protection )

Cher
- 75 days ago - all-creatures.org
To insist on waiting until all human problems are taken care of before we get around to animal suffering is nothing but an evasion. For the sort of society that can accommodate mass slaughter and torture of animals is one so skilled at positioning its
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These "Animal Care Standards" Are a Cruel Hoax
Animals  (tags: animal care standards, cruel hoax, farm animals, animal welfare, animals mistreated, factory farming )

Simone
- 79 days ago - all-creatures.org
Imagine you are the owner of a large industrial farm in Michigan, one of approximately 250 that have moved into the state. Let's say you have 5500 dairy cows (or, in industry parlance "animal units") in one facility. Or, 4000 pigs confined in several
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ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress: No More Unnecessary Antibiotics for Livestock !!!
Animals  (tags: farm animals, factory farming, antibotics, unheatlthy )

Simone
- 92 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The "superbugs" are here and they are in the supermarket meat aisle. According to the New York Times, scientists discovered MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, in supermarket pork in Louisiana and Washington D.C. Meanwhile, a brand new strain
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A Film Set to Cause Tears
Animals  (tags: film maker, farm animals, suffering, factory farming, heartbreaking footage, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 94 days ago - themercury.com.au
DOCUMENTARY filmmaker Gary Rhodes has never cried so much. "I was heartbroken," he said yesterday. Rhodes said his life had been "changed forever" since braving five hours of graphic footage of farm raids undertaken by animal activist Emma
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Mindless Conformity: Factory Farming in Australia
Animals  (tags: animals, factory farming, cruelty, suffering, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 98 days ago - all-creatures.org
Lynda Stoner has devoted her whole life to rescuing factory-farmed animals. Very few people in Australia share her knowledge and experience on the subject. The only really effective way to stop these practices is for the consumer to change the way he/she
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Tell the USDA That Factory Farming ISNT Natural ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, factory farming, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 119 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Living cramped in a cage or crate without fresh air, sunlight or freedom of movement doesn't sound very natural does it? Yet, earlier this year the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a voluntary standard that allows producers to put
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No Time To Kill ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, factory farming, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, suffering, environment )

Cher
- 125 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Our animals are being tortured. It is understood that so many consumers buy and eat meat processed by factories and this helps to support our "economy". However, these animals are taken from or never had the opportunity to experience life in a natural
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ACTION ALERT: Keep Admitted Pig Abuser Jordan Anderson Away From Animals!
Animals  (tags: hormel supplier, investigation, pigs, tortured, kicked, abused, criiminal charges, factory farming, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 136 days ago - animalrights.change.org
During PETA's investigation of a Hormel supplier, they documented that workers were kicking pigs, beating them with metal rods, and jabbing clothespins into their eyes. Twenty-two criminal charges were eventually filed against six employees, and after
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"End Cruel Confinement Nationwide: Enact a Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Law" ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, cruelty, farm animals, factory farming, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 147 days ago - change.org
Farm animals in the U.S. are subjected to intensive confinement and crowded together so tightly that they cannot even turn around or stretch their limbs.
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Help Expose Factory Farming ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, factory farming, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 152 days ago - change.org
Surprising as it may be, many people don't really know what happens to animals in these "farms." Here's a chance to open some eyes.
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Government and Industry Officials Scramble to Defend Exposed Pig Farm Cruelty
Animals  (tags: new zealand, investigation, horriifc pig cruelty, suffering, sow stalls, prisons, officials, goverment, factory farming )

Simone
- 153 days ago - examiner.com
In a stunning admission, Dr. Peter O'Hara of New Zealand's National Animal Welfare Committee, which advises agriculture minister David Carter on proper animal care procedures, publicly stated that he finds acceptable the filthy, cramped crates that pigs
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The Swine Flu And Worldwide Economic Recession: Humanity's Salvation?
Animals  (tags: animals, factory farming, swine flu, AnimalWelfare, environment, humans, protection )

Cher
- 187 days ago - all-creatures.org
There has been a lot of talk in recent days about how factory farmed animals are the cause of the deadly hybrid virus that is eerily mutating, and some are calling it cosmic retribution, a sort of "chickens coming home to roost" scenario.
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