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Animals News tagged with farm animals

Investigation Exposes Factory-Farmed Cruelty
Animals  (tags: australia, laws, farm animals, pigs, factory animals, abused, tortured, imprisoned )

Simone
- 4 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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Society for the Advancement of Animal Wellbeing
Animals  (tags: animals well being, animal advocates protection, vegetarian lifestyle, farm animals )

Simone
- 6 days ago - saawinternational.org
If you love animals then you've arrived at the right place. The Society for the Advancement of Animal Wellbeing ( SAAW International ) is a non-profit dedicated to the care and protection of all animals around the world. As we are based in Taiwan most
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Life in UK Proves Fatal to Reindeer
Animals  (tags: reindeers, england, illness, diseases, farm animals, dying, wild animals )

Simone
- 10 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Reindeer imported to Britain for Santa's grottoes and festive parades are dying prematurely after exposure to diseases from British farm animals, a senior government vet has warned. An official investigation has revealed a sharp increase in deaths in
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On Michigan's Animal Welfare Reforms
Animals  (tags: animals, bills, Michigan, farm animals, AnimalWelfare, suffering, protection, environment )

Cher
- 35 days ago - animalplacesanctuary.blogspot.com
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signed into law a bill that provides more room to protected species. In Michigan's case, defined species include pregnant sows, calves used for veal, hens producing eggs, turkeys, ducks, geese or guinea fowl.
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Vote NO on Ohio's Issue 2, November 3, 2009 ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, abuse, farm animals, Ohio, protection, environment )

Cher
- 44 days ago - all-creatures.org
If you oppose animal abuse, vote NO on Issue 2 this November. Say NO to this power grab by big agribusiness designed to enshrine the agribusiness lobby's favored oversight system in the state's constitution.
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From Science, Plenty of Cows But Little Profit
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, farm animals, science, environment, protection )

Cher
- 57 days ago - all-creatures.org
After it is collected from a bull at a stud farm, semen is mixed with a dye that sticks to DNA. A machine detects the extra dye sticking to X chromosomes and sorts the sperm. The sorted semen is frozen and sold to farmers who use it to inseminate their
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Double Your Impact for World Farm Animal's Day !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, farm animals, environment, suffering, protection )

Cher
- 64 days ago - change.org
On or around October 2nd, dramatic events, including cage-ins, die-ins, video screenings and acts of civil disobedience draw attention to the unspeakable cruelties faced by farmed animals, while information tables and dedicated leafleters educate the
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The Truth Behind The Labels: Farm Animal Welfare Standards and Labeling Practices
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, farm animals, labelling, environment, protection )

Cher
- 70 days ago - farmsanctuary.org
In the past half century, animal agriculture in the U.S. has been taken over by large corporations that dominate the marketplace for meat, dairy and eggs by turning small-scale farms into factory farms. Mechanization has allowed industrialized
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Mom and Lamb Moment, It's a Classic
Animals  (tags: motnher, ewe, lamb, finding each other, bonding, love, farm animals )

Simone
- 70 days ago - animalplacesanctuary.blogspot.com
This was taken almost a year ago. Lenny is on the left, a small, week-old lamb seeking and finding solace with his wise, old mother, Virginia. She had spent years on a wool farm, then her fleece quality declined and, well, her "service" was honored with
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Vote: Should School Animals Be Killed for Food?
Animals  (tags: pet animals, school councils, students, pupils, slaughgtered, inhumanity, farm animals )

Simone
- 72 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Pupils in Kent have decided to kill a lamb that they raised on the farm at their school.
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Would "Pain-Free" Animals Take Suffering Out of Farming?
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pain, suffering, farm animals, environment, protection )

Cher
- 73 days ago - animalplacesanctuary.blogspot.com
Eliminating pain in farmed animals does not eliminate the horror of cutting a life short for a moment of gustatory pleasure. It does not address the rich, intricate social and emotional worlds of farmed animals. In fact, it further reduces them to simple
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Flo Aged With Grace and Dignity
Animals  (tags: animal place sanctuary, rescued goat, flo, aging, memoriam, farm animals, friend, love )

Simone
- 86 days ago - all-creatures.org
Once there was a goat, a special creature who you wanted to curl up with and share all your secrets. She had forgiven humans for milking her and for sending her babies off to slaughter. In her heart, there was a giant ball of compassion, of wanting to
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Is Killing Painlessly Okay?
Animals  (tags: factory farming, farm animals, slaughter, animal welfare, animal activists )

Simone
- 89 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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A Mouthful of Flesh
Animals  (tags: animal rights, discussions, farm animals, vegetarian, animal welfare )

Simone
- 89 days ago - all-creatures.org
In my last post, Dog, Horse... It's Good Food for Us, I posed the question of whether there is a meaningful ethical difference between eating a dog and eating an animal commonly used for food, such as a cow, pig, sheep, chicken or fish. So far, readers
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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
- 98 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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