All Discussions Tagged 'battery' - Animal Rights Zone2024-03-29T09:08:19Zhttp://arzone.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=battery&feed=yes&xn_auth=noArticle about keeping rescue hens - one of the vegan dilemmastag:arzone.ning.com,2012-09-08:4715978:Topic:1093982012-09-08T23:43:22.889ZKerry Bakerhttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/KerryBaker
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<p>This issue gets raised reasonably regularly. Here is how one vegan answered critics about keeping rescued hens.</p>
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<p><a href="http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/am-i-a-hypocrite-for-keeping-adopted-hens-and-advocating-animal-rights/?goback=.gde_1065857_member_160577650">http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/am-i-a-hypocrite-for-keeping-adopted-hens-and-advocating-animal-rights/?goback=.gde_1065857_member_160577650</a></p>
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<p>I agree with the response given to…</p>
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<p>This issue gets raised reasonably regularly. Here is how one vegan answered critics about keeping rescued hens.</p>
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<p><a href="http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/am-i-a-hypocrite-for-keeping-adopted-hens-and-advocating-animal-rights/?goback=.gde_1065857_member_160577650">http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/am-i-a-hypocrite-for-keeping-adopted-hens-and-advocating-animal-rights/?goback=.gde_1065857_member_160577650</a></p>
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<p>I agree with the response given to the criticism. In addition, while we might all like to allow others to live as 'naturally' as possible we are constrained by laws and regulations specific to keeping animals, birds and reptiles. If I don't for example have a microchipped cat or dog here in Melbourne I can't register him or her. Should that animal get picked up by the council rangers he or she is under threat of being put down, so the difficulty is the risk to the animal.</p>
<p><br/>It's a bit of a Catch 22 problem in many ways. On the matter of Care2 I have noticed there is a very active bunch of trolls on that site who destroy any opportunity for objective and intelligent discussion about veganism or vegetarianism.</p> Animal welfare groups, egg farmers reach chicken cage accord; but some say the sky is fallingtag:arzone.ning.com,2012-06-08:4715978:Topic:1004032012-06-08T13:39:26.532ZTim Gierhttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/TimGier
<p>Animal welfare groups, egg farmers reach chicken cage accord; but some say the sky is falling</p>
<p>FRESNO, Calif. — The animal welfare advocates who gave egg-laying hens more room to roam on California farms are trying to expand chicken coops across the nation with an unlikely ally — a group that previously had been their biggest opponent.</p>
<p>The effort to increase cage sizes for the 270 million laying hens in the U.S. is a compromise bill working its way through Congress supported by…</p>
<p>Animal welfare groups, egg farmers reach chicken cage accord; but some say the sky is falling</p>
<p>FRESNO, Calif. — The animal welfare advocates who gave egg-laying hens more room to roam on California farms are trying to expand chicken coops across the nation with an unlikely ally — a group that previously had been their biggest opponent.</p>
<p>The effort to increase cage sizes for the 270 million laying hens in the U.S. is a compromise bill working its way through Congress supported by the Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers, the industry’s largest advocacy group.</p>
<p>The improbable alliance has formed amid a nationwide push by some consumers, grocers and restaurants to improve living conditions for farm animals that provide food for the table.</p>
<p>The Humane Society championed efforts to pass Proposition 2 in California in 2008 to get egg-laying hens out of cramped cages and put them in larger enclosures that give them room to stretch, perch, scratch and flap their wings.</p>
<p>The United Egg Producers fought that effort vigorously, opposing the changes as needless and expensive. But now the industry group is working with its former foe to head off more voter initiatives in other states that would cause a confusing array of regulations for producers who ship across state borders.</p>
<p>Please <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/animal-welfare-groups-egg-farmers-reach-chicken-cage-accord-but-some-say-the-sky-is-falling/2012/06/02/gJQAFr3T9U_story.html" target="_blank">read the entire article here</a>.</p>
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