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Animal Welfare

Oreo, Dog That Surivived Roof Toss, Euthanized

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Aspca, Animal Cruelty, Oreo to Be Put Down, Oreo Dog, Animal Welfare, Animals, Brooklyn, Oreo Roof, New York News

NEW YORK — A young pit bull mix that survived being thrown off the sixth-floor roof of a Brooklyn building still was not fit to live because of ...

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What You Can Learn From Your Cat

Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Animal Fair, Cats, Pets, Animal Welfare, Www.AnimalFair.Com, Animals, Wendy Diamond, Living News
Wendy Diamond

They enjoy the simple things: sleeping, eating, and meowing, so you will be surprised to discover that we can learn a lot from cats!

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The Future of Factory Farming: Barack Obama and the "Rural Agenda"

David Kirby | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Epa, Usda, Animal Welfare, Water Pollution, Cafo, Factory Farms, Obama, Air Pollution, Rural Development, Food, Living News
David Kirby

If elected, Obama promised, he would convene a major national summit on rural issues within 100 days of taking office. Across the country, rural activists held their breath.

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It's Election Day: May I Take Your Order?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Issue 2, Animal Welfare, Election Day, H1n1, Swine Flu, Public Health, Factory Farms, Food Safety, E. Coli, Food-Borne Illness, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?

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Halloween Horror: Cattle Fed Chicken Poop and Recycled Cow Remains

Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Cafo, Consumers Union, Fda, Mad Cow Disease, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Green News
Naomi Starkman

Feeding cattle chicken litter is everyday practice in feedlots. Surprisingly, this unhealthy and inhumane practice is legal and poorly monitored, creating unacceptable risks to human and animal health.

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Name Your Cow, Get More Milk

David Becker | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Welfare, Dairy, Dairy-Farms, Cows, Sustainable Food, Milk, Sustainable Dairy, Green News
David Becker

"Just as people respond better to the personal touch, cows also feel happier and more relaxed if they are given a bit more one-to-one attention," explains Dr. Douglas of Newcastle University.

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Schwarzenegger Saves Cow Tails, Bans "Tail Docking"

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Schwarzenegger, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Tail Docking, Humane Society, California Politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Industrial Agriculture, Politics News

FRESNO, Calif. — California cows are the first in the nation with the legal right to swat flies as nature intended now that Gov. Arnold Schwarze...

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Support Current Legislation to Improve Farm Animal Conditions in New York State

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Humane Society, AB 8163, New York State, Farm Animals, Animal Welfare, Legislation, New York, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Very few people know that a bill similar to California's Prop 2 to protect hens, sows and calves has been proposed in New York State's Assembly, where it is currently stuck in the Agriculture Committee.

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Animal Ceremonies From Around The Globe (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Ceremonies, Religion, Religious Ceremonies, Animal Welfare, Slidepoll, Green, Slideshow, Animals, Religion and Animals, Green News

From Spain's animal lovers' festival, the Feast of San Anton, to China's lunar celebration to honor snakes to Australia's ecumenical Buddhist blessing...

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Richmond SPCA CEO Robin Starr's Blind, Deaf Dog Dies After 4 Hours In Hot Car

AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Spca, Animal Welfare, Hot Car, Robin Starr, Richmond, Dogs, Green News

RICHMOND, Va. An executive for an anti-animal cruelty group says her 16-year-old blind and deaf dog died after she accidentally left him in her hot ca...

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HAPPY for Pets

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Veterinarians, Thaddeus McCotter, Pet Care, Pets, Animals, Recession, American Vetrinary Medical Association, Abandoned Pets, Household Budgets, Animal Rights, Tax Deductible, Animal Welfare, Euthanized, Economic Stimulus, Adopting Pets, Safety Net, Tax Deductions, Politics News
Michael Markarian

By encouraging affordable pet care, the bill not only promotes animal health and well-being, as well as our well-being, but could also help to stimulate the economy.

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Let's Keep Vick Sidelined -- For Now

Doyle Albee | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Nfl, Pit Bull, Michael Vick, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Vick-Animal-Abuse, Michael Vick Sentence, Dogfighting, Animal Abuse, Michael Vick Animal Cruelty, Michael Vick Prison, Animal Welfare, Dog Abuse, Atlanta Falcons Michael Vick Dogfighting, Vick Dogfighting, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Living News
Doyle Albee

Bring Vick back. Just make him work for it. The animals he tortured and killed deserve that, at the very least.

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Adopt-A-Less-Adoptable-Pet Day

Betsy Saul | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Old Dogs, Abandoned Pets, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Pets, Pet Adoption, Petfinder, Animal Abuse, Old-Cat, Adopting Pets, Dog Adoptions, Adoption, Animal Shelter, Living News
Betsy Saul

it is heartbreaking to see wonderful pets staying in shelters day after day, year after year -- just because they are too large or too shy, have broken limbs, or are the "wrong" color.

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Animals on the Hill, and in The Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, The Hill, Animal Welfare, David Scott, Ginnifer Goodwin, Agriculture, Randy Neugebauer, Animals, Mary Landrieu, David Vitter, Jean Schmidt, Jim Moran, Elton Gallegly, Animal Rights, Big Ag, Food Inc., Fast Food Nation, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Politics News
Michael Markarian

The lawmakers doing the bidding for Big Agribusiness simply don't get that the American public wants to see all animals treated humanely, including animals raised for food.

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Bob Barker Stands Up For Bears

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Eco Celebrities, Indians Bob Barker, Animal Rights, Bob Barker, Animal Welfare, Green, Indian Reservation Bears, Animals, Bob Barker Bears, Cherokee Indian Bears, Green News

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Former game show host and longtime animal rights activist Bob Barker has made a personal appeal to the Eastern Band of Cheroke...

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Animal Welfare and the Dog Days of Summer

Ellen Susman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Animal-Adoption, Obama Bo, Animal Cruelty, Barack Obama Dog, Pets, Animal-Control, Animal Rights, Human Society, Animal Abuse, Fostering Animals, Animal-Adoption-and-Rescue, Animal Welfare, Neuter, Pet Neutering Ordinance, Presidential Pets, Politics News
Ellen Susman

The great Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by how it treats its animals." If we are to be judged by his adage, then we have failed.

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Why We Give to Animal Charities

Jackie Fuchs | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Dogs for the Deaf, Humane Society, PAWS/LA, Animal Welfare, Aaron Sorkin, Aspca, Hurricane Katrina, Charity Navigator, Sports Night, Charities, Noah's Ark, The West Wing, Pets, Living News
Jackie Fuchs

Animals have no safety net in society, no voices of their own, and very few rights under the law but they touch our hearts in deep and meaningful ways.

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Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: rbST. Corporate Manipulation, Fox TV, Fraudulent Research, Bob Collier, Jane Akre, Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin, Steve Wilson, Rbgh, Roger Ailes, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, FDA Policy, Fox Television, Politics News, Monsanto, Milk Production, Animal Welfare, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Genetic Engineering, Kansas Legislature, Increased Risk of Cancer, Growth Hormones, Robert Collier, Food Safety, Genetically Engineered, Milk, Kansas HB2121., Bovine Growth Hormone, Whistleblower, Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Politics News
Jeffrey Smith

The following is the third in a series called Get Our Milk Off Drugs, written in response to pending legislation that would interfere with dairies lab...

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It's Time to Catch Up With Britain: Crufts, the AKC, the BBC, and USA Network

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: American Kennel Club, Akc, Peta, Breeding, Crufts, Uk, Pets, Animal Welfare, England, Britian, Animals, Dogs, World News
Bruce Friedrich

It's time that the U.S. catches up with Britain's animal welfare standards. If breeders want something to manipulate and deform within an inch of their lives, they should take up bonsai.

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Moving Forward for Farm Animals

Erin Williams | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, Factory Farming, California, Animlas, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Proposition 2, Animal Slaughter, Farm Bill, Animal Welfare, Green News, Animla Rights, Green Policy, Living News
Erin Williams

In 2008, Americans sent an unmistakable signal to Big Agribusiness that we will not tolerate the kinds of animal cruelty that had become standard. In 2009, let's work to accomplish even more.

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Dog Rescues Dog?

Cheri Shankar | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Animals, Dogs, Dog Rescues Dog, Dogs and Relationships, Dog Rescues Dog on Highway, Dogrescuesdog, Dog Rescues Dog Chile, Living News
Cheri Shankar

We've heard many stories of dogs protecting children or saving a family member from some sort of danger. But how do we explain the dog's motivation to do so?

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Clever Chicken Hides Out In McDonald's Parking Lot (VIDEO)

ABC News | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, McDonald's, Chickens, Animal Rights, Animals, Eating Matters, Animal Welfare, Green News

A rooster escaped from a truck that was carting it to a chicken nugget factory, and sought immunity in a McDonald's parking lot. Luckily, the McDonald...

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Lucky Diamond Guest Spot on Celebrity Apprentice

Wendy Diamond | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Halloween, Lucky Diamond, Lindsay Price, Phil Helmuth, Celebrity Gossip, Humane Society, Ali Lohan, Ivanka Trump, Sonny and Cher, Lisa Hartman-Black, Dina Lohan, Alice Ferrari, Piper Perabo, Animal Welfare, Kelly Rutherford, Toys for Dogs, Max Kibardin, Real Housewives of New York City, Gossip Girl, Amanda Setton, Lonny Ross, Alle Wiel, Voting, Whitney Thompson, Animal Fair, Skeery Jones, Kathy Griffin, Clint Black, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Joan Rivers, Courtney Crawford, Jill Zarin, Antm, Wendy Diamond, Hilary Clinton, Halloween Costumes, 30 Rock, Nicole Fiscella, Donald Trump, Joan Rivers Celebrity Apprentice, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill, Furla, Animal Fundraisers, Animal Benefits, American Kennel Club, Living News
Wendy Diamond

This week was our always-entertaining Annual Halloween Pet Costume Party benefiting the Humane Society and par usual the party featured some downright adorable canine costumes.

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Vegans And Meat-Eaters Unite To Support California's Proposition 2

The Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 11.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Usda, Animal Rights, California Proposition 2, Wayne Pacelle, Humane Society, Eating Matters, Free-Range, Animal Welfare, Vegan, Proposition 2, California, Cage-Free Animals, Green News

Proposition 2, a sweeping California ballot initiative designed to improve the treatment that farm animals receive, will be decided by voters on Novem...

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CA Slaughterhouse Zaps Cows Too Weak To Stand

Washington Post | Rick Weiss | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Electric Shocks, Animal Welfare, Slaughterhouse, Humane Society, Animal Abuse, Cows, Cow Abuse, Business News

Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand ...

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