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Farmed Animals
Country of Origin Labeling Reduces Long Distance Transport of Farm Animals
Farmed AnimalsResearch performed by AWI suggests that Country of Origin Labeling (“COOL”) may reduce the suffering of animals by curbing the long-distance transport of animals from Canada and Mexico. In 2008,...
Industry Pumps Banned Antibiotics into Farm Animals
Farmed AnimalsIn a joint study, scientists at Johns Hopkins’ Center for a Livable Future (CLF) and Arizona State University found evidence suggesting that a class of antibiotics previously banned by the...
Longtime Friend and New Farmer Join Animal Welfare Approved Program
Farmed AnimalsShelby GrebencShelby Grebenc runs an egg operation in Broomfield, Colorado. Every morning, she gets up at dawn to take care of her 130 pasture-raised Leghorns, Ameraucanas, Rhode Island Reds, and...
No Kidding! Goats Have Accents
Farmed AnimalsResearchers have found that goats develop their own “accents” as they grow older and move among social groups. The study, published in the journal Animal Behavior, shows that a goat’s environment...
President Honors AWA Farmers
Farmed AnimalsChad and Jodi Ray, owners of Animal Welfare Approved Ray Family Farms, were honored by the Obama administration as “Champions of Change” in connection with the president’s Winning the Future...
AWI Pushes Animal Welfare in Illinois
Companion Animals, Equines, Farmed AnimalsIn March, AWI staff led efforts on several animal protection measures before the Illinois General Assembly. HB 1607—a bill to prohibit tail docking of cattle, the inhumane practice of partially...
Rhode Island Considers Better Protection of Farm Animals
Farmed AnimalsAWI staff traveled to Rhode Island in February to testify in favor of S 2192 and S 2032, bills to ban tail docking of cattle and to create an online...
Animal Welfare Institute Commends USDA for Posting Humane Slaughter Records Online
Press ReleaseMarch 16, 2012Farmed AnimalsLast week the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) began posting on the agency’s website letters sent to slaughter plants found to be in violation of federal regulations governing...
Cage-Free or Just Bigger Cages?
Farmed AnimalsWhen California voters passed Proposition 2 two years ago, they thought they were banning the confinement of egg-laying hens in tiny “battery cages.” Unfortunately, the language of the ballot measure...
Fire Engulfs Crowded Hatchery
Farmed AnimalsDisasters like floods, roof collapses and fires are not uncommon occurrences on factory farms. And given the large numbers of animals confined on these operations, such emergencies can kill tens—even...