Tag: Animal Rights - Page 6
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Vegans, Vegetarians & Omnivores Unite! Against Factory Farms
Over at Grist yesterday Tom Philpott wrote one of the most important and practical pieces in food politics writing I've seen in a while (and self-reflective green movement commentary). Philpott rightly urges both
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PETA Cancels Clever Canadian Club Campaign Over Trademark
A seal walks into a bar. Really. PETA printed 10,000 clever coasters and distributed them in bars around Toronto with the very funny message, drawn in the inimitable style of New Yorker contributor Harry Bliss. On the back is a more graphic photo of
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Iowa Bill Would Send You To Jail For 10 Years For Exposing Animal Cruelty on Farms
Iowa's ripping a page from Florida's ill-conceived, let's cover up the ills of factory farming with unnecessary laws, book: Big Ag and Iowa lawmakers are teaming up to make it illegal to seek employment on a farm
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Moby Dick More Than A Book? Sperm Whales Might Have Individual Names
I have to say this is one of the most fascinating stories I've seen in a while: Wired reports that in a February issue of Animal Behavior biologists discuss their preliminary research findings suggesting the sperm whales
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Chickens Experience Empathy When Their Chicks Are Disturbed
Another interesting bit about the emotional lives of animals: Proceedings of the Royal Society B (h/t Mongabay) has published a study showing that mother hens show both physical and behavioral responses when their
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Florida State Politician Wants To Make Photographing Farms a Felony
Taking this photo, apparently from the side of the road, would be a criminal act. Photo: InspireFate Photography/Creative Commons. Grist highlights what Norman wants to do: SB 1246 by Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa, would make it a first-degree felony to
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Self-Doubting Monkeys & Really Clever Sheep, Who Knew?!
Two quick bits about how our non-human animal cousins are far more like us intellectually and emotionally than we give them credit for.
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Happy Chinese New Year; Welcome To The Year of the Rabbit
Epic Fail: Efforts to Fight Invasive Species Could Cause
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OinkLibel? Soil Association Accused of Defamation by UK Factory Farm Developer
Recall the infamous McLibel case from the late 1990s? Hints of that now via The Guardian: UK organic farming advocates the Soil Association have been given a libel warning by
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Coverage of Factory Farming & Animal Welfare Has Decreased US Meat Demand
This is really pretty encouraging: A new study from Kansas State University shows how increased media coverage of animal welfare issues in recent years has led to a decreased demand for meat in the United States.
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A Picture is Worth: Factory Farms in US Mapped in Their Polluting, Graphic, Gory Detail
As you could probably guess, the darkest red is the highest density of factory farms, and is based on data from 2007 (the newest available). Above are all the different kinds of factory farms together; scroll down for individual farm types. All images:
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Congress Again Bans Crush Videos
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Congress has heeded this advice, and voted to ban so-called crush videos, which depict animal cruelty, often with women killing small animals to satisfy some strange urge of the viewer. More specifically,
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Safe Passage For Endangered Mice: Is It a "Bridge Too Fur"?
Dormice are endangered in Britain, and under European Union regulations, if you disrupt habitat by say, building a £90m road, you have to "provide appropriate mitigation." So the City council in Pontypridd, South Wales, built three bridges to get the
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Do You Think It's OK To Kill 200,000 Ants For Art?
Traditions regarding the treatment of living things vary from the Jains of India, who will not eat a living plant, to the Judeo-Christian "Dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the
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Sea Shepherd's Captain Pete Bethune Given Suspended Sentence by Japanese Authorities
Pete Bethune, captain of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's now-sunken Ady Gil, has been given a two-year suspended sentence for boarding the whaler Shonan Maru #2 in an attempt to make a citizen's arrest of the
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Whaling & Dolphin Hunting Not About What's Being Killed But Who
Continuing on a theme that keeps coming up on TreeHugger, the fact that an increasing number of scientists believe that cetaceans have levels of self-awareness and societal development that they
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Adopt a Neglected Farm Animal Through the Farm Animal Adoption Network
Back in March Farm Sanctuary rescued six calves that had almost starved to death from a farm in Pennsylvania. After much hard work and round the clock care the SPCA and Farm Sanctuary were able to nurse Sasha, Jasper, Filipe,
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Calf Head Stomping Dairy Farmer Exposed, Gets Charged With 12 Counts of Animal Cruelty (Video)
In the midst of the all oil spill all the time coverage out there, you may have missed this truly horrific story of systematic animal cruelty
