Sentences with phrase «about factory farmed animal»

There is nothing benign about factory farmed animal conditions, and it's pretty hard to make sure you're not getting such a product.

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Today's commonplaces of animal rights discourse — concern about the factory farms, the unnecessary lab experiments on monkeys, the cosmetics tested on rabbits — are familiar because of Singer and the tremendous influence of his book.

«The Humane Society of the United States applauds Wendy's for responding to customers» concerns about animal welfare and taking this positive step,» stated Paul Shapiro, senior director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.

The response from major retailers has been encouraging, with Coles and Woolworths responding to public concern about the treatment of animals raised for food by committing to stock fewer factory farmed products.

With increased community awareness about the cruelty of factory farming, the lives led by these animals are becoming an increasingly important consideration in purchasing decisions.

This has been largely a response to disturbing reports about the cruel treatment of animals in «factory farming» - one of the most controversial and emotive issues - where the maximum number of animals are crammed into the minimum amount of space, unable to move freely, denied any kind of normal life and reduced to nothing more than products on a factory production line.

The Japanese locate their tofu factories very close to animal farms because more than 95 % of the okara (soybean pulp) is fed to animals (mostly hogs and dairy cows) and about 4 % of the okara becomes fertilizer (compost) because it is fairly rich in nitrogen and trace minerals.

Anyone can watch FORKS OVER KNIVES and FARM TO FRIDGE online to educate yourselves about how the food supply is killing people in epidemic proportions, and also the horrific cruelty to animals at ALL farms, not just factory farms.

At the same time, I was reading books and movies about the cruelties that factory farm animals go through to get to my dinner plate — although not even the Alec Baldwin narrative on Meet your Meat could change my mind permanently.

A documentary about factory farming and the notion of «speciesism,» the assumption of human superiority over animals.

This problem is so big that everyone who cares about animal welfare, the environment and the nation's health, in general, should educate themselves about the process of factory farming and find a way that they can make a change.

Neither term implies anything about animal welfare; products from «factory» farming and confinement operations (such as battery cages for chickens), can still be organic, natural, both, or neither.

The last seven years have produced several high - impact, feature - length documentaries about the plight of animals, such as The Cove, Earthlings, Born to be Wild, Dealing Dogs, and Death on a Factory Farm.

I, too, have recently learned about the abuse of factory farm animals and can hardly believe there are people who behave with such cruelty.

By working with HEART, Chris teaches children and adults about topics such as animal overpopulation, factory farms, puppy mills, poaching, child labor, and pollution.

Events so far this year: To educate about factory farming and laws regarding farmed animals, we watched the «Got the Facts on Milk?»

The chapter hosted Lewis Bollard, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) policy advisor, who spoke on Ag - Gag laws, and Liz Hallinan, Compassion Over Killing director of policy, who talked about animal and human rights abuses in factory farming.

When I started the animal group in college, we were promoting spaying and neutering and responsible care of companion animals, and we were talking about some of the big - picture, institutional cruelty: factory farming and animal testing, sport hunting, and killing animals for fur.

About 98 % of the meat, milk and eggs sold in America comes from animals raised on factory farms, also known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).

Their 5 major campaigns in the U.S. are: Factory Farming Fur Industry Stop Puppy Mills End Animal Fighting Wildlife Abuse (Formerly Hunting Campaign) She bragged about their Petland investigation, the passing of Prop.

Now with two locations, one in Watkins Glen, New York, another in California, Farm Sanctuary aims to protect farm animals from cruelty, educate consumers about making compassionate dietary choices, and advocate for change in factory faFarm Sanctuary aims to protect farm animals from cruelty, educate consumers about making compassionate dietary choices, and advocate for change in factory fafarm animals from cruelty, educate consumers about making compassionate dietary choices, and advocate for change in factory farms.

New Yorkers concerned about animal welfare converged on the state capitol for Humane Lobby Day to meet with lawmakers and lobby for better animal protection laws designed to strengthen anti-cruelty statues, eliminate the extreme confinement of animals on factory farms and protect sharks from the cruel and unsustainable shark fin trade.

Pamela Sordyl started advocating for animals in 2007 when she learned about puppy mills and factory farming.

About Channel - Farm Animal Rescue is a place of refuge for animals that have been freed from abusive situations and factory farms, each of which receives the best of life time care.

Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming and encourage a new awareness and understanding about farm animFarm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming and encourage a new awareness and understanding about farm animfarm animals.

Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms is a thoughtful, and surprisingly lighthearted, memoir about a most serious topic: poop... and the animals that make it.

Still, it's a great, if rudimentary, introduction to the concept of animal welfare on factory farms, which parents can use to jump - start a conversation about where our food comes from.

Factory - farmed animals also generate about 500 million tons of manure a year, a figure that jumped 60 percent between 1990 and 2008 and has polluted 34,000 miles of rivers and 216,000 acres of lakes and reservoirs throughout the country.