Tag: animal welfare
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No Excuse
I just viewed the recently released undercover video from Mercy For Animals. I’m not going to share the link on here because the video brought me to tears and I am outraged that anyone would treat animals that way. But if you must see it, search ‘Mercy For Animals calves’ and I’m sure you’ll be able to find…
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Which Is More Appropriate: Slaughter or Harvest?
Is ‘Involuntary Conversion to Protein’ PC Enough For You? In today’s animal agriculture society, it’s nearly impossible to go a single day without overhearing a conversation, reading a newspaper story or watching a news release about animal welfare. Let me start off by saying that I don’t really care for the term animal welfare because…
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Can You Spot the Feedlot Beef Producer?
I am in the midst of compiling a master list of agricultural information and agvocacy videos to be posted on this blog as a separate page so that they’re easy to find for anyone who may be looking. This undertaking has entailed many hours of asking fellow agvocates for their favorite videos and conducting a…
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Cold Weather Warms My Heart
This week in Denver, cattle producers are gathering to discuss the political, environmental, animal welfare and economic issues of the cattle industry. That’s right — today marks the first day of Cattle Industry Annual Convention & NCBA Trade Show. Also happening in the midwest this week is an extremely large blizzard that prevent many ranchers from…
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Bridging the science gap
It’s very hard to translate science based publications and information into easy to read, succinct information for producers and consumers. I know this because I write scientifically by day and blog using regular English by night. Two different languages saying the same thing – preserve and protect agriculture. However, occasionally (yet not often enough) the language barrier…