"Pigs Will Fly": Australian anti factory farming campaign

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)

Photo [redacted] caption: Animals Australia on October 22, 2012 released “Pigs WILL fly,” an anti-factory farming video produced for both television and cinema showing. The video features a pig in a factory-type barn, singing “Somewhere,” from the 1957 Broadway musical “West Side Story,” with a backup chorus of other pigs, battery-caged hens, and other poultry, all daring to dream of freedom: www.animalsaustralia.org/appeal/make-it-possible/countdown.php

Australian sheep export to Bahrain comes to "bloody & miserable end" in Pakistan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)

KARACHI, Pakistan–The Livestock Department of the state government of Sindh, Pakistan on October 20, 2012 killed the last of 22,000 sheep who were shipped from Fremantle, Australia to Bahrain on August 4, 2012 aboard the Wellard Rural Exports transporter Ocean Drover, Malir district deputy commissionr Kazi Jan Muhammad told Ghulam Abbas of the Karachi Business Recorder. Intended to be sold for Ramadan ritual slaughter, the sheep were rejected by Bahrain on August 21, purportedly due to scabby mouth disease, a stress-related affliction similar to a human cold sore, which often develops among sheep on shipboard. The disease is also called “orf.” Read more

Biggest foie gras farm stopped

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)

BEIJING, LONDON–A plan to build the world’s largest waterfowl farm and foie gras factory in Jiangxi province, China, appears to have been scuttled by global cooperation among animal advocates. “China’s Central People’s Broadcasting Station, quoting a local official, confirmed an end to the planned project,” Humane Society International China policy specialist Peter Li told ANIMAL PEOPLE on October 5, 2012. The Chinese state radio network report affirmed months of rumors that a project suspension announced in April 2012 would be made permanent. Read more

Mercy for Animals exposes California slaughterhouse

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

HANFORD, Calif.–The Central Valley Meat Company in Hanford, California, specializing in slaughtering “retired” dairy cows, reopened on August 27, 2012, just seven days after it was closed by the USDA Office of Inspector General, in response to abuses documented in June 2012 by a Mercy for Animals undercover operative. Read more

Three views of the flap over the proposed federal laying hen regulation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

It is not surprising that the pork and beef industries are desperately trying to kill federal legislation-HR.3798/S.3239-to ban barren battery cages for egg-laying hens. What’s saddening-and disturbing-is that the Humane Farming Association is also trying to kill the bill. Let’s be clear: HFA has never passed a law to ban any farm animal confinement system anywhere. HFA refused to support California’s Proposition Two in 2008, which mandated more space for various farm animals, and never endorsed either the Arizona or Florida farm animal ballot measures that set up the possibility of success in California. HFA also actively opposed legislation in California to ban the force-feeding of ducks to produce foie gras. Had HFA had its way and the bill not been enacted, ducks in California would likely still be having pipes shoved down their throats daily. Read more

70,000 Australian sheep stranded at sea by disease outbreak

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

KARACHI–Twenty-two thousand Australian sheep on September 22, 2012 won at least a temporary reprieve from being culled in Pakistan, and were still alive two days later while the Sindh High Court reviewed evidence submitted by Rafiq Khanani of the Dow Univesity of Health Sciences that the sheep had not contracted serious diseases during prolonged transport aboard the Ocean Drover. Read more

Emu speculation bubble bursts in India

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

COIMBATORE, ERODE, NAMAKKAL--A five-year-old emu speculation bubble in August 2012 burst in India just as others have around the world for decades, leaving thousands of bankrupt investors, more than 15,000 starving birds in Tamil Nadu state alone, and humane societies including the Blue Cross of India struggling to accommodate surviving birds who were impounded by law enforcement, while the Animal Welfare Board of India tried to devise a national response plan. Read more

Floods again hit overgrazed Pakistan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

MULTAN--Animal Save Movement Pakistan president Khalid Mahmood Qurashi on September 21, 2012 appealed to the world for help on behalf of animals and humans displaced by the second round of catastrophic monsoon flooding to hit Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan in only three years.

At least 217 people were killed, with 222,500 displaced, according to the international disaster response resource ReliefWeb. No animal toll was available. Read more

Butterball Conviction

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:

Former Butterball employee Brian Douglas, one of five people shown abusing turkeys seen in undercover video footage obtained by Mercy For Animals in late 2011, pleaded guilty felonious cruelty to animals in Hoke County Superior Court in Raeford, North Carolina on August 28, 2012. Douglas was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail followed by six months of probation and 36 months of supervised probation, to pay $550 in fines, and to provide a DNA sample to the state. “Cases against the four other people charged are pending,” reported Fayetteville Observer staff writer Caitlin Dineen.

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