Sentences with phrase «animal confinement»

But the tide is starting to turn as scientists, voters, lawmakers and retailers reject extreme forms of farm animal confinement.

Other states including Florida, Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon have passed laws to limit animal confinement.

-- Ten states banning excessive animal confinement in one form or another, with Massachusetts passing the most comprehensive bill yet in November.

Fast - casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill added some spice to its long - running «Food With Integrity» sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award - winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food production.

Not exact matches

The iOS game enables users to wage their own battle against Crow Foods by transporting animals from confinement to open pastures and replanting the fallow fields of Scarecrow Farms.

«Animals that are raised in environments with reduced confinement and stress yield a better raw material for us to work with,» he says.

Panera Bread offered an update on its food policy on Wednesday, saying it has taken big steps toward reducing the use of antibiotics and confinement of animals in its supply chain.

The effort to go cage - free got a big boost at the beginning of 2014, when California officially enacted a proposition to essentially abolish the close confinement of farm animals in cages and crates.

Panera (PNRA), meanwhile, generated headlines last year as it took a big step toward reducing the use of antibiotics and confinement of animals in its supply chain.

For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.

The current production of animal products subjects tens of billions of thinking, feeling animals to lives of extreme confinement, emotional trauma, painful mutilations, and inhumane slaughter.

At a higher level, motility frees animals from spatial confinement and renders them open to a great variety of situations to respond to.

The measure bans the intensive confinement of breeding pigs and veal calves in tiny crates on corporate factory farms, where the animals can not turn around or stretch their limbs.

«Smithfield's original timetable for its phase - out of gestation crates was already very lengthy, given the prolonged suffering that the animals endure in these extreme confinement systems,» said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS.

«We applaud both Cracker Barrel and its shareholders for supporting a shift away from this inhumane confinement of animals.»

The animals engaged in stereotypic behaviors such as biting the bars of crates, indicating poor well - being in the extreme confinement conditions.

The current production of animal products subjects tens of billions of thinking, feeling animals to lives of extreme confinement, emotional trauma, painful mutilations, and inhumane slaughter.

Maine Becomes 6th State to Ban Extreme Confinement of Animals in Small Crates and Cages on Factory Farms

In a landslide 2008 vote, nearly 64 percent of California voters passed the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, phasing out battery cage, gestation crate, and veal crate confinement statewide.

The vast majority of meat, eggs, and dairy products sold in American grocery chains and restaurants comes from animals raised in intensive - confinement systems (so - called factory farms) that impose significant stress on the animals in pursuit of efficiency.

The Cornucopia Institute says that after years of inaction by the USDA on the issue, it obtained aerial photographs in nine states of industrial - scale confinement facilities that fly in the face of the organic standards developed to protect the American people from factory produced animal products.

Costco's decision follows discussions with animal welfare group Mercy For Animals about undercover video taken by the organization at a gestation crate pig confinement facility supplying pork to Costco stores, as well as after discussions with The HSUS.

«People simply don't support the lifelong confinement of animals in cages so small they can't even turn around, and it's both an ethical decision and good business move for Carnival to recognize that.»

This confinement system has come under fire from veterinarians, farmers, animal welfare advocates, animal scientists, consumers, and more.

These changes alone will help free millions of animals from cruel confinement.

We're driving the campaign to end the intensive confinement of farm animals in crates and cages so small they can't even turn around.

This confinement system has come under fire from veterinarians, farmers, animal welfare advocates, animal scientists, consumers and others.

Animals are given grains sprayed with unmonitored pesticides to fatten them up cheaply, hormones to boost milk production, and antibiotics to treat infection that develops from overproduction of milk and inability to be active from confinement.

«Confinement, torture and unhealthy living conditions have led to early death for these intelligent, gentle animals.

If your pet is not up - to - date on its rabies shots, the ten - day confinement / observation period must take place, at the owner's expense, at an appropriate facility such as an animal shelter, veterinarian's office, or kennel.

The animals» close confinement allows the virus to exploit more of its host's tissues because it does not need to keep the host healthy to spread the infection.

Performance rose in animals transferred midway from impoverished to enriched conditions and declined in those transferred to solitary confinement.

In modern America, animals are either industrialized — raised in huge concentrations and in confinement — or sentimentalized, treated as persons.

In addition, heat impacts grazing animals differently than animals in confinement settings (Parsons et al. 2001; Turnpenny et al. 2001).

The fat content of grain - fed meat, particularly animals raised in confinement lots, has more omega - 6 fat and less omega - 3 fat.

Coupled with pesticide - laden fruits and vegetables, suspicious animal products from factory and confinement operations, our standard commercial food supply is far from nutritious and is more likely dangerous.

Of course, we should all work for the elimination of confinement animal facilities, which do cause a great deal of suffering in our animals, not to mention desecration of the environment.

The problem is not animals, which roamed the earth in huge numbers emitting methane, urine and manure long before humans came on the scene, but their concentration into confinement facilities.

The Foundation supports raising animals on pasture as much of the year as possible, and opposes confinement operations, feedlots, debeaking, growth hormones, routine antibiotics in feed, inappropriate feed such as soy, and other practices that harm animals» health and well - being, harm the environment, and result in animal foods that are not optimally nutritious for humans.

Since humans are not raised in confinement like lab animals, there are always sources of variability in human studies that can not be fully explained.

The readers brilliantly highlight the frustrations, joy, and mundane realities of the long confinement on an animal - filled ark.

Animals in cages and aquariums require daily cleaning and attention because they can not escape their own litter or the boredom of being forgotten in their small confinement.

One very pleasant surprise is that state officials, who are instrumental in passing important legislation (our panel included discussions of shark finning bans, puppy mill legislation, outlawing pigeon shoots, protections for companion animals, and the intensive confinement of pigs), were extremely happy about being invited to animal events.

Dogs are den animals, and a Weimaraner started with confinement training early will love it for the rest of his life.

The press release notes the key elements of the proposal include preventing the following: extreme confinement of farm animals in small cages, the use of «downer cows» in the human food chain and the use of inhumane methods of euthanasia for sick and injured animals.

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.

As with any other breed of dog English Springer Spaniels are not recommended to anyone who is planning to be out all day leaving the dog on its own; dogs are pack animals and therefore do not take kindly to solitary confinement.

There would be no need for such continued animal testing, long - term cage - confinement and suffering, if whole food ingredients of known origin and content were used to make wholesome food for pets and people alike.

It shall be unlawful for any person in the county to knowingly and intentionally harbor, feed, keep in possession by confinement, or otherwise, any stray animal which does not belong to that person, unless that person has, within twenty - four (24) hours from the time such animal came into his / her possession, notified an animal control officer of his / her intentions to either surrender the stray animal to the animal control officer or advertise such stray animal in the local newspaper for three (3) consecutive days.

The CDC recommends a 10 - day confinement for vaccinated and unvaccinated pets, but still advises that any stray or «unwanted» domestic animal who bites a person be killed and tested for rabies.