Such breeding facilities treat puppies as cash crops instead of pets, employing horrendous standards of care for the dogs and
producing sick animals prone to illness, injury, genetic and behavioral problems.
And not surprisingly, my views on sourcing pork haven't changed much in the past few years... try to find and buy pastured pork when available and always avoid pork from concentrated animal food operations (CAFO's) that
produce sick animals full of antibiotics and added hormones.
Not exact matches
«Antibiotics are used to treat
sick animals, and the cows on a dairy farm are females, so they
produce a lot of estrogens.
The majority of nuclear transfers in
animals don't take, or they
produce fetuses that abort at high rates, or they deliver creatures misshapen and
sick.
In food -
producing animals, FDA - approved uses of antibiotics include disease treatment for
animals that are
sick; disease control for a group of
animals when some of the
animals are
sick; and disease prevention for a group of healthy
animals that are at risk of becoming
sick.
If
sick puppies are accepted, then
sick puppies will continue to be offered, in lieu of seeking to prevent sickness and disease, and more dogs will suffer to
produce a profit for those who care not for the welfare of
animals at all.
When she became too
sick to profitably
produce puppies, she was dumped in an
animal shelter by the puppy mill owner.
Often puppy mill operators fail to apply proper husbandry practices that would remove
sick dogs from their breeding pools and they
produce puppies prone to congenital and hereditary defects Puppy mills are not defined by the number of
animals.
Rick Santorum, R - Pa., and Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday the Agriculture Department inadequately protects mass -
produced animals from overcrowding and disease.As a result, they said at a Capitol Hill news conference, families often take home a dog that is
sick.