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 November 2009 (Equines / Horses)Ethical considerations around horses, domestic and feral, and the morality of horse meat "In 1880, the United States of America had about 6.9 million horses," writes Rep. Sue Wallis from Wyoming. "Those horses were used for everything from transportation to plowing fields to providing the power to run the machinery of the day. They were also used for food. Some Native American tribes, like the Apache, really didn't use horses for transport all that much ... they mostly ate what they caught. There was no such thing as a 'wild horse'." |
 November 2009 (Bovines / Cattle)Equal Access to Justice Act : Environmental lawsuits rake in billions for lawyers "CHEYENNE: During harsh economic times, rancher Karen Budd-Falen reached the breaking point on a day last fall," writes Jake Putnam in his blog for Idaho Farm Bureau News. "Falen had read about a huge court settlement the Federal Government paid out to a non-profit environmental group and after talking to the ranchers in the Western Legacy Alliance, it set her off." |
 October 2009 (Management / Animal rights)On cute and ugly meat "While studying in Germany a few years back one of my professors was thrilled to find out that I came from Iceland - an enjoyable trip to my North Atlantic isle still fresh in her memory," writes Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir. "Then her expression suddenly darkened as she recalled something unpleasant about her journey. 'I find it horrible that you eat puffins,' she told me. 'Why?' I demanded. 'Because they're so cute'." |
 July 2009 (Animal fibres / Trapping)Sustaining the Wild. The business of trapping fur in Quebec's woodlands "Gripped in Serge Larivière's right hand is a white bucket," observes Jennifer Freitas for Concordia University's newspaper, The Link. "It holds a dead pigeon and leftover fish from his supper. With a muskrat fur hat on his head, Larivière walks through the forest on his 15 acres of land in Saint-Apollinaire. ... Forty-year-old Larivière is a fur trapper. Of Aboriginal decent, Larivière started trapping furs with his father when he was five years old. He has been walking the trap line on his own every fall since the age of 20." |
 May 2009 (Management / Farming)State-by-state welfare legislation not solution "Is state-by-state legislation of farm animal welfare good for animals? Is it even good for people?" asks Candace Croney of the department of veterinary preventive medicine, Ohio State University. "It has been suggested that recent legislation .... will promote farm animal well-being simply by mandating greater freedom of movement for animals. There are merits to this argument. However, science and common sense suggest that there may be problems as well. Some have indicated that animal welfare may instead be worsened." Reproduced with the permission of Feedstuffs. |
 April 2009 (Management / Farming)Connecting Farm to Fork Bernard Rollin, a professor at Colorado State University, and Steve Kopperud, executive vice president of Policy Directions Inc. go head to head over animal welfare issues. Dr. Rollin explains "What ag must understand," while Kopperud counters, "To underestimate farmers, ranchers is a serious mistake." Reproduced with the permission of Feedstuffs. |
 March 2009 (Animal Fibres / Fur)Money grows on trees in New Zealand. Cozying up to eco-friendly fur "Headlights trace the dying canopy of a stand of Pohutukawa trees," writes Chrys Hutchings of Oregon-based Eco-Luxury Fur. "The decades-old, fourwheel-drive Range Rover slows, and a father and son disembark with their shotguns. They survey the formerly lush landscape with their flashlights until they catch the glint of paihamu eyes in a tree. Seconds later, a 12-pound paihamu lies dead on the ground ..." |
 February 2009 (Testudines)Survival of the sea turtle. Cayman Turtle Farm starts over "The first chapter of the Cayman Turtle Farm story did not end happily. But a new phase in this fabled effort to protect wild sea turtles has begun," reports Andrew Morriss of the Property and Environment Research Center. "Wild sea turtles were declining rapidly when Cayman Turtle Farm Ltd. was created in the West Indies in 1968. The farm, located on Grand Cayman Island, hatched green sea turtles in captivity and raised them for meat. By selling these turtles, it reduced the incentive of poachers to take endangered wild turtles. The farm also released year-old hatchlings into the ocean and supported turtle research." |
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