11. Impacts on your health and environment
It isn’t only animals that suffer from factory farming. There are serious costs to human health and the world we live in. Healthy eating? At least half of all antibiotics sold are used on farmed animals to force quicker growth
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12. Model Farm Project
between WSPA and the Food Animal Initiative (FAI), the project provides practical examples of how farming in developing countries can improve Animal welfare. The model farms also provide WSPA’s university partners with a place to
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13. WSPA takes action on World Rabies Day
education programme in China. Find out more about just a few of the activities below. Cameroon Rabies is a major problem in Cameroon. Human deaths following bites from non-vaccinated dogs are rising. On World Rabies Day, WSPA helped
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14. WSPA's investigation into the global fur trade
three million farm-raised animals every year. In addition, they hold approximately 660,000 breeding female mink on their fur farms. While Europe is a major consumer of fur produced in China, the Norwegians actually export a significant
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15. WSPA finds influential, attentive audience at UN sustainability meet
governments hear WSPA link animal welfare to sustainability. Last week, at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, WSPA co-hosted a side event in the run-up to Earth Summit 2012, together with the environmental organisation,
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16. International momentum for a fur free world
Animals matter Please support the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare
Find out more: Animal welfare groups More related articles
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17. Farm life: miserable and fraught with intense suffering
rather than gassing. Larger animals, like foxes and raccoon dogs, are commonly electrocuted. animals are also killed by injection, but it is never possible to humanely inject a wild and fearful animal. Legislation, what legislation? China has no
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18. Participate in Fur Free Friday
endured by the one billion animals killed annually, mainly on farms, but also in the wild with traps. Fur farms now produce about 85 % of the world’s fur, of which China, with no legal animal welfare protection and appalling conditions
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19. Help create a fur-free future!
of grass© Network for Animal Freedom 2009 With fur back in fashion, it’s ever more important that we celebrate successes for the anti-fur movement and remind ourselves and our friends why this acute cruelty will never be
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20. Duvets: a nightmare for geese
The figure is even higher in China, the world’s largest producer of down and other feathers. China exports to a number of European countries where the down is used in duvets, pillows and jackets. Regardless of the origin of the feathers,
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