Sentences with phrase «mill breeding through»

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However, wheat biofortified through breeding or fortified during milling with zinc and iron can play a vital role in diets in areas where «hidden hunger» is a concern and where nutritional options are unaffordable or unavailable.

The paper reviews the findings of multiple studies involving dogs born in high - volume commercial breeding establishments — commonly known as puppy mills — and sold to the consumer directly via the Internet, or indirectly through retail pet stores.

Because of how dogs sold through pet stores and / or born in puppy mills are bred, housed, handled, shipped, homed, and raised, there are many possible reasons underlying the problems they show as adults.

The end goal of this bill and the reason for this measure is to drastically reduce the number of animals sold through both shelters and retail pet stores purchased through mass breeding operations or as the media along with the general public labelling them «puppy mills» or «kitten factories».

Pam has shared Lil Olive's life — and passing — with hundreds of thousands of people across the world through Lil Olive's Facebook page with the intention of raising awareness about what the breeding industry did, and does, not only to Lil Olive, but to all the many thousands of other dogs, most of whom will never get out of the puppy mills alive.

It is estimated that over 90 percent of pets sold in pet stores and through online sales come from commercial, mass breeding operations known as mills, including puppy, kitten, bird and rabbit mills.

To hide their size, puppy mills are now selling puppies through multiple sites, creating the image of a small breeder selling only one or two breeds, when they're actually a large - scale operation.

Most puppies sold in pet stores were bred in puppy mills, brokered through puppy brokers, whose sole purpose is to make money with little to no concern for animal care or welfare.

Through Best Friends» puppy mill initiatives, we are working to convince pet stores to offer pets for adoption instead of selling mill - bred pets, educate consumers about puppy mills, and create and lobby for humane legislation.

Work to end breed discrimination that takes good dogs away from loving families, stop puppy mills, and keep community cats safe and out of shelters through TNR (trap - neuter - return) programs

Work to end breed discrimination that takes good dogs away from loving families, stop puppy mills, and keep community (feral and stray) cats safe and out of shelters through TNR (trap - neuter - return) programs

The goal of the ordinance is not to target responsible breeders, just commercial breeding operations, i.e. puppy mills, who distribute through pet stores and commercial businesses, said Weitzman.

Rather than attacking puppy mills, the Best Friends» strategy to combat mills is to eliminate the market and distribution outlets for commercially bred puppies through local public education and local ordinances.

Lisa Peterson of the American Kennel Club said it is important to seek reputable breeders or breed - specific rescue groups, because puppies sold through pet stores are frequently the products of puppy mills and may not be appropriately screened.

I watched her change and overcome all that she had been through in her life as a breeding dog in a puppy mill.

One example was Lilly, a puppy mill breeding Dachshund who had dental disease so bad that there was a hole that formed from from her palate through to her nose (an oral nasal fistula); she also had a giant hernia, mammary cancer, and heartworm disease.

One example was Lilly, a puppy mill breeding Dachshund who had dental disease so bad that a hole had formed from her palate through to her nose (an oral nasal fistula).

I have spoken with too many people who have fallen victim to buying from a backyard breeder or puppy mill type breeder only to be heartbroken when their puppies developed serious health issues that might have easily been prevented through responsible health testing and breeding for the improvement of the breed rather than for money.

Puppy mills are breeding facilities that put maximizing profit ahead of animal welfare and mass - produce puppies for sale on the Internet, through ads, by brokers or at pet shops.

It did not try to reenter the breed «through the back door» of puppy mills.

And after failed attempts to close down «puppy mills» through other legislation, they see this as another opportunity close off the supply of commercially bred dogs and send more people to adoption agencies.

Puppy mills and kitten mills are a concern because of the mass numbers of animals involved and the degree of cruelty that these animals are subjected to through filthy living conditions, malnutrition, mass breeding and lack of veterinary care.

With this breeds surge in popularity in the early 1970s through the 1980 many puppy mills and backyard breeders produced genetically unhealthy dogs, leading to health issues with the breed.

After fostering and then adopting a little cocker spaniel named Karmen, a breeding female at a puppy mill, Kathy realized that the best way to work with Karmen was through clicker training.

Nearly 1 million Missouri voters sent a powerful message through the ballot box to shed the stigma of being the puppy mill capital of the country by approving Proposition B, a statewide ballot initiative to establish basic standards for the care of dogs in large - scale commercial breeding facilities.

You may think you're getting all of these benefits when you buy a pet through a retail store, but most of those animals come from puppy mills — mass breeding facilities with notoriously poor conditions for parent animals and their litters.

Supply drives demand, but that's the point of putting the squeeze on puppy mills through the smart marketing of shelter pets and ordinances that ban the sale of mill - bred animals in pet stores — to make animals supplied by puppy mills more expensive and less accessible.

«As a result of this ruling alone, more cities nationwide will be inspired to pass laws aimed at stemming the flow of puppy mill animals produced through forced, high - volume breeding practices under inhumane conditions.»