animal welfare

In yet another obvious Libtard overreach California has outlawed pet stores using puppy mills just because they are cruel. Instead the special snowflakes think animals should not be put through misery and will now require pet stores to adopt out rescues...

Seeing as I quite like animals, I have been coming across these terms more and more in my readings. In society I see many of my co-workers extolling the virtues of buying free-range/organic animal products or warning not to buy from pet shops. The main counter argument that I encounter is that...

This is partly to keep the zoo thread from derailing, and partly because I wanted to create such a thread for some time. As a circus artist in training (since last fall), I've lately taken an interest in animals as performers in circuses. For the longest time I didn't really care about the...

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/new-zealand-outlaws-kosher-slaughter-1.293017 i don't understand why stunning the animal cannot be incorporated into kosher slaughter practises.

Considering the PETA attention whoring made fun of in the other thread, I figured I would contrast it with an example of where real animal welfare is taken into account with beneficial results. This AP article describes how dogs have been rescued for use at the Idaho State Correctional...

Canada's annual "Seal slaughter" has begun. Each spring hundreds of blood thirsty locals descend onto the ice to slaughter helpless seals by shooting them or beating them to death with clubs. The Canadian seal hunt is the largest marine mammal slaughter on the planet with over a million seals...

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/07/spain.bulls.ap/index.html When will this insane and inhumane practice end? I personally don't care about the morons who are getting hurt, but the poor bulls who are being tortured.