Animal - welfare groups, including the ASPCA, HSUS, say rescuers are misguided in buying dogs at auction because the money they pay only encourages more
breeding on a commercial scale.
Not exact matches
The May issue of Bon Appétit has a great, extensive feature
on heritage pork — smaller, varied
breeds of pig that get ignored by large -
scale commercial pork producers.
Our take
on the report is that a large part of the APHIS agency is a farce and that many of the individuals employed to inspect the large
scale commercial breeding facilities have blatantly ignored minimum care standards that are intended to ensure the humane care and treatment of animals.Â
We also call
on the pet industry and the USDA to adopt meaningful standards of care for
commercial, large -
scale dog
breeding operations.
The resolution, though, does not actually ban anything, but calls
on the governor, legislature and local municipalities to take immediate steps to ban the sale of dogs and cats that come from large
scale commercial breeding facilities - which are often referred to as «puppy mills.»
It's unfortunate but true that large -
scale commercial breeders and brokers typically confine dogs for their entire lives in tiny, stacked, wire - floored cages, waste falling
on them from above, their paws injured by the wire threads, and the female dogs
bred continuously to exhaustion.»
Puppy mills are large -
scale commercial dog
breeding facilities, typically run
on a «factory farm» model.