The puppy
mill industry produces dogs for profit while thousands of unwanted animals of all ages and breeds are euthanized in shelters every day.
Not exact matches
Once home to steel
mills, coal mines, glassworks, and factories that
produced chains, locks, leather, nails, cast iron and similar goods, the Black Country also inspired writers such as Elihu Berrit, whose Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border - land begins: «The Black Country, black by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic
industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and often...
With all the press and documentaries warning American families about puppy
mills and their cohorts, the pet shops, it is hard to believe that any conscious, functioning person would be unaware of the horrors of this
industry which often
produces defective puppies for resale to you, the unsuspecting general public.
«The Friendship Animal Protective League supports this measure because we have first - hand experience caring for mother dogs discarded by the puppy
mill industry after they could no longer
produce litters.
A RECENT investigation by ABC News» 20/20 revealed that many pet stores are supplied with puppies bred under the worst possible conditions.Not to be confused with the American Kennel Club's well - run kennels, these «puppy farms» are little more than horror chambers where dogs are mass -
produced for one reason: money.The dogs resulting from these cottage
industry puppy
mills are, as might be expected, weak, often diseased and crippled.
It's a move intended to help bring an end to the «puppy
mill»
industry, into which an estimated 10,000 large - scale commercial pet breeders
produce some 2,000,000 puppies per year, often in unthinkably cruel conditions.
This system, now well established in the Brazilian ethanol
industry, is spreading to sugar
mills in other countries that
produce the remaining 80 percent of the world sugar harvest.
In the steel
industry for example, specialized «mini
mills» were able to
produce rebar for concrete structures more efficiently than the traditional integrated steel
mills could.