Sentences with phrase «farm animal cause»

Therefore, we expect that, until wild animal advocacy from a perspective close to ours is more developed generally, we will do the most good by focusing on the farm animal cause, including directing general animal advocates to that cause, identifying especially good opportunities within that cause, and advising donors and organizations working within farm animal advocacy.

Not exact matches

And if some of the tenets of the foodie cause, like being pro-organic or anti-GMO, are built on shaky evidence, others, like concern for animal welfare in large corporate farms or the impact of eating a diet heavy in processed foods, are not.

Can we avoid supporting those forms of factory farming that cause extreme suffering to animals?

The Animal Welfare Institute is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to reducing animal suffering caused by people, and has sought to improve the welfare of farm animals since the early Animal Welfare Institute is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to reducing animal suffering caused by people, and has sought to improve the welfare of farm animals since the early animal suffering caused by people, and has sought to improve the welfare of farm animals since the early 1950s.

Factory farmed meats on the other hand have a higher ratio of omega - 6s which can cause inflammation because the animals are usually fed grains like GMO corn and soy.

«This may contribute to antibiotic resistance, [and] scientists are more concerned about disease - causing bacteria that develops resistance in farm animals to then infect human beings.

Joyce D'Silva, of Compassion in World Farming, added: «Eating too much meat is devastating for our health, the environment and causes suffering to animals.

Something I learned that surprised me is that factory farming of animals causes something like 3x more emissions into the atmosphere than a car does!

The animals ate the vegetables on the farm and that was what caused the problem.

Here it goes - Footage of the devastation caused by Irene: roads and bridges being washed away, houses pushed off foundations, cars flushed down streets, flooded farm land, dead animals in the farm fields, old and young crying as they enter their mud clogged homes GO TO The brave Republicans standing behind their hypocrite leader Cantor, followed by their callous video clips speaking about how we can't afford to help unless we cut, cut, cut.

In addition to its health effects, aflatoxin also makes its way to the farm animals that eat these crops, causing an estimated $ 270 million in agricultural losses per year in the United States alone.

Unlike, say, dog poop that can be easily washed off a shoe, people have no way to avoid the smell wafting from a giant hog farm — and animal studies suggest that the impact of stressors, which can cause, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, can be modulated by a sense of control over that stressor.

English government lab blamed for foot and mouth outbreak Leaky drainage pipes may have allowed the foot and mouth virus to escape from a lab funded by England's Institute for Animal Health in Pirbright, causing last month's outbreaks at two farms in nearby Surrey, government investigators said.

Brucella, which causes the sometimes fatal disease brucellosis in humans and farm animals, seems to depend on blue wavelengths of light — like those found in the sun's rays — for its survival.

And sure enough, under some conditions it can cause a Parkinson's - like syndrome in laboratory animals, 2 and a strong and consistent relationship has been found between on - farm exposure to paraquat in farm workers (as opposed to exposure to residues in one's food) and risk of PD.3

Industrial animal agriculture and factory farming causes more harm to the environment than every form of transportation combined.

If you ate raw milk from a factory - farmed cow, you may get very sick, but not because of the inherent fact that it's raw — but because the animals themselves and their milk is tainted with disease - causing microbes due to the way they are raised.

Among these, Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) causes extensive DNA damage and is the most potent carcinogen ever tested, especially affecting liver and lungs, also causing birth defects, immune - toxicity and even death in farm animals and humans.

In one instance of DRM that caused a rift with consumers, Amazon.com in July 2009, remotely deleted purchased copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty - Four (1949) from customers» Amazon Kindles after providing them a refund for the purchased products.

More animal farms of any scale in Oakland means more animals killed, more animals dumped at the shelter, [x] and opening the floodgates for slaughter hobbyists to practice their craft, [xi] make mistakes, kill animals and cause needless suffering.

Our Cause for Paws is a line of jewelry created to raise awareness of animal cruelty and to support Lollypop Farm.

For the casual funder who wants a cause to support where the average organization will be helping many animals, farm animal advocacy is, in our opinion, the best match.

We do very limited work on advocacy around other specific animal issues such as use of animals in laboratories and companion animal homelessness, because we think good opportunities to help animals are much easier to find in the area of farm animal advocacy (and additionally the less popular area of wild animal suffering).104 The work we do in these areas serves mainly to check our assumptions about the scale, tractability, and neglectedness of various causes.

Even with these omissions, this estimate is 100 - 1000 times higher than our estimates for the numbers of animals affected by advocacy for companion or lab animals, suggesting that farm animal advocacy is the most important cause of the three — at least in terms of the number of animals involved.

Fireworks can cause domestic pets, farm animals and wildlife to suffer as a result of the noise created by fireworks.

(a) «Dangerous dog» means any dog which (i) without justification attacks a person, companion animal as defined in subdivision five of section three hundred fifty of this chapter, farm animal as defined in subdivision four of section three hundred fifty of this chapter or domestic animal as defined in subdivision seven of this section and causes physical injury or death, or (ii) behaves in a manner which a reasonable person would believe poses a serious and unjustified imminent threat of serious physical injury or death to one or more persons, companion animals, farm animals or domestic animals or (iii) without justification attacks a service dog, guide dog or hearing dog and causes physical injury or death.

«We think helping farmed animals is the animal cause that currently offers the most promising blend of scale, tractability, and neglectedness -LSB-...] For the casual funder who wants a cause to support where the average organization will be helping many animals, farm animal advocacy is, in our opinion, the best match.

«[A] ll else equal, the sooner we expect there to be substantial decreases in the number of farmed animals, the more interested we become in causes other than farmed animal advocacy.

«Other major factors include tractability of such an approach and the scale of suffering that the most cruel practices cause -LSB-...] The final argument is that these tactics are not the only ones in animal advocacy so while helping so many animals is crucial, we can also reach to other, more receptive audiences with arguments against animal farming and suffering.»

The updated regulations still do not go far enough in addressing unacceptably long transport times, overcrowded trucks and other problems causing needless suffering for farm animals.

In particular, Humane Canada supports the replacement of all farming practices that cause pain, injury, stress, and negative emotional states such as fear and frustration, with practices that minimize these effects, and provide farm animals with opportunities to express behaviours that promote well - being.

Factory farming has been labeled as the biggest cause of animal cruelty in the world.

Upon this discovery of illegal animal slaughter farms and the black market horse meat trade, Couto, also known as «Kudo,» invoked his vision of exposing and implementing solutions for extreme criminal acts towards animals into reality and created an unstoppable team who are dedicated to our organizations cause.

By 1979, our magazine was pointing to animal farming as the cause of a host of ecological, environmental and social ills.

WORC also reported that new rail lines would cause disruption to farm and ranch land and could negatively impact migratory animal corridors.

CFS has four stated goals, which promote organic agriculture by restricting traditional farming methods: «Ensuring the testing, labeling and regulation of genetically engineered (GE) foods; Preserving strict national organic food standards; Preventing potential animal and human health crises caused by food borne illness — including «mad cow» disease; Educating the public on the hazards of industrial agriculture.»

She expressed concern about possible changes the wind farm will cause in over-the-air TV, radio, internet and cellphone service, along with the possible harm the turbines will have on farm animals and wildlife.

Find this amazing story, a look at the new species discovered in 2010, the effect of media coverage on factory farming, and how humans are causing shark attacks, and more in the Week in Animal Ne

When the farm animals die and vultures scavenge the bodies, the become exposed to the drug, causing kidney failure.

It is poor public policy that condones restrictions on grazing operations, or taxes on grazing animals, based on disputed theories that claim that bodily emissions from farm animals will cause dangerous global warming.

Over the past few decades, the rise of factory farming has institutionalized animal cruelty, caused massive environmental destruction and resource depletion, and posed a constant threat to human and animal health.

Some more on the leaking carbon sequestration project in Canada that has killed farm animals, and caused all sorts of strange problems for farmers Cameron and Jane Kerr.

In response, some U.S. farm lobbies, very powerful in farming states, have caused bills to be placed before state legislatures that would criminalize certain acts designed to publicize the treatment of animals.

The owner or «lawful custodian» of a dangerous dog is considered strictly liable for any medical costs resulting from an injury the animal causes to a person, pet, farm animal or domestic animal.