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If You Can, Please Help Peaceful Prairie
expand their sanctuary. For zoning reasons, the land beside this sanctuary in Colorado must be used for animals. If Peaceful Prairie cannot afford to buy it, it will become a ranch or slaughter facility.
You can read more here:http://www.peacefulprairie.org/expansion2.htmlAttack of the Potbellied Pigs
Perhaps slightly off-topic. But when pigs attack, you are compelled to do as they please. These are some of the rescued potbellied pigs at the sanctuary. None of them really have happy, nice stories. Suffice it to say that I continue to be amazed at the resiliency the animals at the sanctuary exhibit. Gotta love 'em. Enough about that, they really ( Read more... )(Untitled)
Is the way we raise our food giving us MRSA?
The antibiotics fed to the farm animals we eat may have helped to create superbugs like the drug-resistant staph bacteria known as MRSA.
By Alex Koppelman
News
Nov. 7, 2007 | You may want to put down your BLT before reading this, because there's a chance that the most delicious part of your sandwich -- the ( Read more... )Thousands of pigs fed tainted dog and cat food
WASHINGTON -- Up to 6,000 hogs in California , Kansas , New York , North Carolina , Oklahoma , South Carolina, and Utah that ate pet food tainted with industrial chemicals cannot be safely sold to humans, federal authorities said yesterday, and should be euthanized at the farms where they have been held from the market. Several hundred of the swine ( Read more... )Oregan Senate Passes Gestation Crate Ban
You can thank Senator Ginny Burdick for introducing this legislation: sen.ginnyburdick@state.or.us
(SALEM) - The Oregon State Senate approved a measure today prohibiting what has been called one of the most abusive practices in factory farming: confining breeding pigs in metal gestation crates so small the animals can’t turn around for months on end ( Read more... )Canada's Maple Leaf Foods phase out gestation crates
Canada's largest pork processor is phasing out "sow gestation stalls" - small steel cages used to confine pigs during pregnancy - a week after its largest U.S. rival made the same move.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. said the move to group pens will take place over 10 years and apply only to pigs raised in company-owned plants, not those it buys from ( Read more... )Because everyone needs a smile
Here is a pic I took at the sanctuary of our youngest pig, Owen (5 months) with our oldest pig Bruce (9 years). Owen has taken to grooming all the older pigs. He spent a good five minutes grooming Bruce's face. It was pretty damn precious.
Owen was found in the middle of the road by a kind stranger. He was only a day old. He would have been raised ( Read more... )Egregious Cruelty on Ohio pig farm
Undercover footage taken from an Ohio pig farm shows workers hanging live pigs, kicking piglets, and leaving festering wounds untreated. And it is all legal. So far, no charges have been filed against the operators of the factory farm. News article
You can help!
Write the prosecutor and ask that charges be filed against Wiles hog farm in Wayne County ( Read more... )Rolling Stone.
Kudos to Rolling Stone for printing what seems like (have not had a chance to read it yet) a pretty indepth article on the environmental impacts of pig farming.
It's in the new issue - Snoop Dogg's on the cover.