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 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." |
 January 2009 (Rodents)"30-pound ugly rat" a destructive neighbor "Chuck Carmack can often be found at Airlie Gardens, snapping pictures of just about every critter he sees in the New Hanover County gardens along Bradley Creek. But this May, he saw a pair of animals in one of the gardens' many ponds that looked a bit strange," reports Gareth McGrath of North Carolina's Star-News. "'I just thought it was an otter or a beaver at first, although they seemed awful big,' Carmack said. Then he got home, opened the picture on his computer and saw the animal's Doritos-colored buck teeth." |
 October 2008 (Animal fibres / Trapping)Cull of the wild. Some still carry on state's longtime tradition "While many people might think of trapping as a closed chapter in Wisconsin history, for grandmother and mother Gwen Campbell, it's a way to bond with and educate her four children," writes photojournalist Mark Hoffman. 'I've passed it on to all my kids and the choice is going to be theirs. I hope that they show it to their kids as well and give their kids the option of doing this in the future,' says the rural Adams County resident." |
 October 2008 (Management / Animal rights)Warning: Animal extremists are dangerous to your health "For years we have laughed at the antics of people in some of the more extreme segments of the animal rights movement," write researcher P. Michael Conn and retired public information officer James Parker. "They put up billboards encouraging children to drink beer instead of milk and vilify fast food chains for cooking veggie burgers on the same grill as meat. ... All this sure gets the media’s attention and sometimes even a chuckle from the public. Well, maybe its time to stop laughing." |
 May 2008 (Fisheries)Quotas down under: American fishermen get a firsthand look at New Zealand's management system "In 1986, New Zealand's Labor government introduced an individual transferable quota system to manage fisheries within its huge exclusive economic ..." writes Hoyt Childers of National Fisherman. "For 20 years, New Zealand's experiment has sparked robust debate within the U.S. fishing community." |
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