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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Raising millions of animals per year in close confinement for decades longer than most other nations, The Netherlands has correspondingly had much more experience than almost anywhere else with how contagious diseases spread among large herds and flocks in close quarters. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Editorial feature: Asian dog & cat meat trade could be on the way out
By Kim Bartlett & Merritt Clifton
Recent developments signify that dog and cat meat industries of Southeast Asia, South Korea, and China may be approaching the beginning of their end, if current campaigns sustain present momentum. The dog and cat meat industries are vulnerable to eradication through a combination of factors, including rising education and affluence, the increasing popularity of keeping dogs and cats as household pets, and democratization of traditionally oligarchic and patriarchal societies, so that women and younger people––who are more likely to be sympathetic toward animals––have more say in what goes on.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
DOVER, U.K.––Protests failed to stop the May 3, 2013 resumption of live animal exports from Dover. Currently just one ship, the MV Jolie, hauls animals once a week from Dover to Calais, France. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.––The Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013, written to implement a 2011 agreement between the Humane Society of the U.S. and United Egg Producers about laying hen cage sizes, was not included in either the U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives version of the 2013 Farm Bill. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
Exposing a bloody business
CANBERRA––The latest Animals Australia undercover videos of slaughter at the two Egyptian slaughterhouses authorized to kill Australian cattle showed “outrageous cruelty” that “left me and my industry colleagues disgusted and horrified,” Australian Livestock Exporters Council spokesperson Alison Penfold told media. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
DOVER, U.K.––Protests failed to stop the May 3, 2013 resumption of live animal exports from Dover. Currently just one ship, the MV Jolie, hauls animals once a week from Dover to Calais, France. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.––The Office of the USDA Inspector General report Food Safety and Inspection Service—Inspection and Enforcement Activities At Swine Slaughter Plants should have shocked the pork-eating public. Instead, released on May 9, 2013, it went almost ignored until Farm Sanctuary senior director for strategic initiatives Bruce Friedrich on May 28, 2013 described the content in The Huffington Post. Read more
From Animal-People May/June 2013
CHENGDU––Guizhentang Pharmaceutical, China’s largest producer of bear bile, in April 2013 for the second time in two years withdrew a proposal to sell stock to raise the capital needed to increase the number of bears it keeps from 400 to 1,200. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
Editorial feature: Ag-gag laws & changing frameworks of perception
The most deeply held conviction shared among U.S. meat industry executives and advocates of not eating meat may be the belief that if most people witnessed slaughter, they would not eat meat. Read more