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Super market chain Winn-Dixie is the latest company to adopt animal
welfare standards for its suppliers. After months of negotiations with
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the company agreed
to establish standards similar to those agreed to by other companies
like Safeway, Burger King and Hardees. Winn-Dixie will give purchasing
preference to suppliers who: use or switch to controlled atmosphere
killing for poultry, produce cage-free eggs and pork producers who do
not use sow gestation crates. The company also agrees to increase the
amount of product they buy from such sources each year.

PETA owns shares of Winn-Dixie which has 520 stores in Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=380A6C07-027C-9
8D0-9C026ED3D6E1B3F1

2) Crazy laws could give PETA right of farm entry:
http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general
/general/crazy-us-laws-could-give-peta-right-of-farm-entry/1060921.aspx

Animal rights and vegetarian activists could have the authority to enter
and search California farm buildings and arrest producers for suspected
violations of animal welfare laws if California voters approve a ballot
initiative in coming months. The initiative - which has been designated
"Proposition 2," or "Prop 2" - is directed at the treatment of farm
animals and, if passed, would require that farm animals not be confined
or tethered in a manner that prevents an animal from lying down,
standing up, turning around and fully extending its limbs. Recent
studies found that even most barn, or cage-free, housing systems for
hens would be prohibited under the requirement.

Farm on Line

3) Animal-rights group posts anti-meat ads on Chicago mass transit:


"How Much Cruelty Can You Swallow?" is the theme of 600 anti-meat ads
from Chicago-based animal-rights group Mercy for Animals in the city's
elevated trains. The ads, slated to be displayed for two months, depict
cows, pigs and hens in cramped, dirty cages and gestation crates. "Our
goal is not shock value," Nathan Runkle, the group's executive director,
told the Sun-Times. "These really are rather mild images of what happens
to farmed animals. We haven't shown the gory slaughterhouse photos that
I think people would be even more shocked and appalled by."

Meatingplace.com This is a subscription web site ...

I did find this web site that also provides this information:
http://www.stopforcefeeding.com/page.php?module=home

4) AVMA supports change in veal calf housing:
http://www.avma.org/convention/news/monday02.asp

The American Veterinary Medical Association has adopted a policy aimed
at making more comfortable the housing in which calves are raised for
veal. AVMA's new policy, approved during the agency's annual convention,
"supports a change in veal husbandry practices that severely restrict
movement, to housing systems that allow for greater freedom of movement
without compromising health or welfare.

The policy is in line with that of the American Veal Association, which
was developed with input from AVMA, that calls for individual stalls,
but stalls that enable calves to lay down or get up, stretch out and
interact with neighbors.

AVMA

5) Perry draws Tyson's support on ethanol stand:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-perry_21bus.A
RT.State.Edition2.4d960c6.html

Tyson Foods endorsed Mr. Perry's effort but has also lobbied to preserve
its $1-per-gallon tax credit for making [renewable diesel] from animal
fat. The credit could be worth as much as $175 million to Tyson and
ConocoPhillips. Another Tyson project would qualify for the tax credit
as well. The company plans to make up to 75 million gallons per year of
biodiesel from beef tallow, chicken fat and greases.

Dallas Morning News

6) Food defense plans voluntary-for now: FSIS
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Food_Defense_&_Emergency_Response/index.asp

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service expects that at least 90
percent of meat, poultry and processed egg supply establishments will
voluntarily adopt food defense plans, and if that goal isn't reached in
the near future, the agency says, it may mandate their creation.

Meatingplace.com

7) Wild Horses May Face Death Sentence:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92691184

With the price of hay up and adoptions down, the government may begin
euthanizing wild horses. There are currently about 30,000 of them in
federal holding centers; a number wild horse advocates blame on careless
management.

NPR.org
 
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