Tag: HSUS
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Quit sucking at blogging
Naturally, I’m talking about myself. I don’t have any excuses why I haven’t blogged in almost 5 weeks. I’ve been busy but there are people out there who are far busier than I who blog regularly so I’ll just shut up and get on with this post. Today, I’m writing in the 5 Fact Friday…
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HSUS and PETA – Lover’s Quarrel
photo courtesy Did you hear the news?! PETA and HSUS are in a spat. But probably not for long – some celebrity like Kim Kardashian (I’ll never understand why she’s considered a celebrity) will wear a leather cap and then be back in cahoots. However, for now they aren’t seeing eye to eye on a…
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The Facts on Food Day 2011
Friend or foe? First off, let me say that I applaud an initiative that seeks to narrow the gap between rural producers and urban consumers. That is the whole point of advocacy and a national day that recognizes global hunger, environmental sustainability and the continued humane production of livestock is a giant step in the right direction. Food Day, which is…
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Practical People = Practical Solutions
While waiting to pick up cow manure at the Royal Melbourne Show yesterday, I was reading the newspaper. I ran across an article about farmers being upset with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for taking a more extreme stand on recent animal welfare issues in Australia. In the past, RSCPA…
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HSUS and United Egg Producers are Uniting
If you thought you smelled ballot initiatives in the air – you were right. The United Egg Producers and HSUS have decided to work together to achieve, through a federal legislative initiative, the following objectives: — Require a moratorium at the end of 2011 on new construction of unenrichable battery cages — small, cramped, cages…