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documentary features an Ohio pig farmer who was put on trial for animal cruelty charges stemming from the hanging of a pig on his farm. The film includes undercover video taken at the farm and also covers the hearing. Please check your local
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provides an insight into pigs' subjective emotional state and this will help scientists and farmers to continue to improve the lives of their pigs in the future."
The methodology was simple. They taught pigs to expect a treat when they
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nets; (b) cats and dogs, and pigs and goats in the same laboratories; and (c) native and feral species in the same parks are viewed or treated quite differently by humans. Second, original experiments were conducted wherein some hypothetical
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which used the "three little pigs" fairy tale (and was even illustrated with drawings of three pigs) as an analogy, recommended the cheaper housing. Another BP document put a ten million dollar value on the workers' lives (based on estimated costs
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is transmittable between pigs, birds, and humans. That jump does not come from eating pig meat, but simply from contact with an infected individual.
The crowded, stressful conditions in factory farms are prime breeding grounds for disease.
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"Five thousand pigs produce as much raw sewage as a town of 20,000 people. That statistic alone makes factory farming environmentally problematic and in need of regulatory oversight. But there's more. pig waste is more
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Consider this: Five thousand pigs produce as much raw sewage as a town of 20,000 people. That statistic alone makes factory farming environmentally problematic and in need of regulatory oversight. But there's more.
pig waste is more
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"bellowing like a stuck pig…." You can make a list as well as I can. Joan Dunayer, author of Animal Equality: Language and Liberation , is a strong champion of cleansing our discourse of such language. I recommend her book, but my
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to boot (respectively, pig valves and electronic monitoring devices in human bodies). Recent science supports these conceptual claims. Carroll (“Hybrids may thrive where parents fear to tread ,” New York Times , September 13,
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animals in Michigan ("any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen that is kept on a farm,") will have the right to lie down, stand up and fully extend her limbs, because of a bill passed overwhelmingly this fall by the
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