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Tasmania is to become the first Australian state to ban battery hen farming and will fast-track the phasing out of pigs in sow stalls.
The Government announced $2.5 million for animal welfare in yesterday’s state budget, including a phase-out of battery farming and the fast-tracking of a planned ban on sow stalls by the middle of next year.
Primary Industries Minister Bryan Green says the Government will immediately ban any future battery hen operation and cap the existing number of pens in production.
The Government says it will help farmers transition away from battery hen and sow stalls in response to a growing consumer preference for products that are sensitive to animal welfare.
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memuco:
Well, crap! the number is up to 162. Well done humanity, well done, looking great!
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veganexperience:
furfreela:
If you wouldn’t wear your dog. Don’t wear fur.
If you’re against animal cruelty, don’t wear fur.
Guide to tell real fur from fake
http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/fur/field-guide-on-real-vs-fake-fur-final.pdf
If an item is under $150 it does not have to be labeled as fur. If you are vegan and are ok with faux fur make sure you know what you are buying… don’t trust the label.
ecocides:
A female rhino in Tugela private game reserve, Colenso, Natal, South Africa, that four months earlier survived a brutal de-horning by poachers who used a chainsaw to remove her horns and a large section of bone in that area of her skull | image by Brent Stirton
:( I’m glad she’s safe now.
A pregnant six-year-old female and her nine-year-old bull companion were drugged and de-horned by poachers in South Africa. The rhinos were darted with an overdose of a morphine derivative, known as M99, before having their horns hacked off with pangas or machetes. Besides losing the horns, the female is likely to lose her unborn calf as a result of the ordeal
Photograph: Gallo Images/Rex Features
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anoceanactivist:
Rise above plastics. Find out how you can help turn the tide on plastic pollution at www.surfrider.org/rap.
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powerecoads:
Foie Gras… just forced fed ducks and geese, process so violent that many die with their organs ruptured or choked on their own vomit… forced feeding aims to bloat their livers up to 10 times the normal size, this will leave them unable to stand, developing infections, sometimes liver necrosis, spleen damage, bruised and broken bills and lumps in their throats… the animals are kept in poor conditions, small and dirty cages… and then, as you can see in the picture, the liver is harvested - according to the source - while they are still alive.
I don’t know if there are words in the english language to describe how vile this is and how terrible this makes me feel.
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willbraham:
tw3news:
TW3
BOYCOTT WEARING OF ALL ANIMAL FUR…!!!!
quoilecanard:
treekisser:
INTERMIX has to kill (typically by way of anal electrocution) up to 15 arctic foxes for ONE of their fur vests. You know that’s not right.
Please take a moment to tweet at @INTERMIX, leave them a facebook comment, and especially join our Fur Free Photo Campaign to let INTERMIX know you will NOT be shopping with them until they stop selling fur.
Every voice counts. Especially yours.
It doesn’t matter even if it’s 150 coats made from one fox, it’s always going to be wrong. The people who do this to those poor animals deserve to die from accidental electrocution or something equally horrific.
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