Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator, 2008.06.06
The use of battery-powered electric prods to get hogs moving is a controversial animal welfare issue.
The prod is poked into the back or rump of the pig and with a push of a button, a flash of electric current jumps between two contacts. It’s enough to elicit a loud squeal in some pigs.
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Posted by Admin on July 23rd, 2009 :: Filed under
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Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator,2008.06.06
It’s Friday, May 9. I didn’t need my alarm clock this morning. I was wide awake by 4 a.m.
I admit that I was a little apprehensive. This is Piggy’s last day. This morning, he’s being shipped from the Littlejohns’ farm in the hamlet of Glen Morris to Great Lakes Specialty Meats, a small packing plant in Mitchell, about half an hour north of London.
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Posted by Admin on July 22nd, 2009 :: Filed under
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Luisa D’Amato, Waterloo Region Record, July 12, 2008
The hogs are just a few minutes away from death.
High-pitched screams pierce the warm air at Conestoga Meat Packers, a pork processing plant near Breslau.
Men with plastic paddles push the dusty animals, each as heavy as a football player, toward a covered, metal passageway.
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Posted by Admin on July 22nd, 2009 :: Filed under
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08Dec19 By SHANNON RUCKMAN, The Prairie Star editor
BILLINGS, Mont. – With close to 10 million horses in the nation, Montana horse owners and enthusiasts are concerned about the welfare of the equine industry if legislation is passed banning the transport of horses to slaughter facilities.
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Posted by Admin on July 21st, 2009 :: Filed under
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For Immediate Release:
December 15, 2008
Memphis, Tenn. — In light of the Transportation Security Administration’s decision to allow advertising on the bins used at airport checkpoints in order to pay for security equipment upgrades, PETA has dispatched a letter to Larry D. Cox, president and CEO of Memphis International Airport (MEM).
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Posted by Admin on July 21st, 2009 :: Filed under
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Feedstuffs, (12/25/2008) ,
Rod Smith
The National Meat Assn. (NMA) has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in California seeking to overturn part of a California law passed this summer that bans the slaughter of non-ambulatory livestock for meat for human consumption, and the American Meat Institute (AMI) has moved to intervene in and broaden the action, according to an announcement yesterday.
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Posted by Admin on July 21st, 2009 :: Filed under
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Tricia Springstubb, The Plain Dealer, January 11, 2009
At last! We’ve installed a 100-percent squirrel- proof bird feeder. I’m gloating over the desperation of the fat-tailed rodent who normally hoovers up the seed and, if I’m not quick enough on the refill, sets to gnawing the back door. He is relentless in his dangling upside down, flattening himself against the lid and rising up on his hind legs, beating his chest. Foiled!
And then I begin to read Temple Grandin’s “Animals Make Us Human.”
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Posted by Admin on July 19th, 2009 :: Filed under
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