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Grannybear - might you be thinking about the Pig in Crates initiative. It was to prevent the use of small crates for gestating sows. It did pass (though Florida was laughed at) and it did start or continue a movement towards legislation to promote humane animal farming methods.
Helen - I hope Prop 2 passes!
Helen - I hope Prop 2 passes!
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No unfortunately - it dealt with a specific crate built to prevent mother pigs from rolling over on their piglets. This was not out of kindness to the piglets but to make more money. The sow was kept in a crate so small it could not move - very cruel.I think you are right. It was for pigs, but couldn't it be used for all animals?
I am totally against the practise of keeping any kind of animal in a small enclosure. One of the many reasons I will not eat veal. When I buy eggs I pay extra for the cage free chicken eggs.
Not everyone feels the same way and I respect people not wanting to pay more for their groceries. The only real way to change is to support the producers of humane farming products.
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Laissez-faire are us.
As long as we're being off-topic, my gratitude to Gillian who is mostly a single parent just lately . . .
Can't speak for many sports, but I do know a bit about soccer equipment, as DH's crappy catalogues pass through my hands on their way to the recycling. A lot of that stuff, even the really high-end, is made mostly or exclusively of synthetics--balls, shoes, even goalie gloves.
I've kind of got issues with that--anytime you're working with petroleum products, you're introducing pollutants and potentially dangerous extraction/transfer/processing procedures.
I'm not that troubled by leather products from cattle--as long as this country has a huge thriving beef market, there will be hides. If they're not used for leather, they've got to be disposed of some other way. (Though especially with cheaper imported leathers, there are gross pollutants involved in tanning etc.)
I do object to raising animals in unpleasant surroundings exclusively to harvest their fur. I don't think anyone needs that, and their deaths serve no other purpose. Small indigenous groups who take small numbers of wild animals for traditional purposes is one thing, Blackglama strikes me as entirely another.
I also think as long as we regard ourselves as beings of higher ethical development, we have an absolute obligation to these creatures to treat them as humanely as possible: give them space, allow them as many natural behaviours as is feasible, avoid causing pain.
Leather'll keep the wind out, but DH's leather jacket is a bit chilly for me! Michael's looks so yummy on him it trumps all other considerations for me!
(How's that for a circular post??)
As long as we're being off-topic, my gratitude to Gillian who is mostly a single parent just lately . . .
Can't speak for many sports, but I do know a bit about soccer equipment, as DH's crappy catalogues pass through my hands on their way to the recycling. A lot of that stuff, even the really high-end, is made mostly or exclusively of synthetics--balls, shoes, even goalie gloves.
I've kind of got issues with that--anytime you're working with petroleum products, you're introducing pollutants and potentially dangerous extraction/transfer/processing procedures.
I'm not that troubled by leather products from cattle--as long as this country has a huge thriving beef market, there will be hides. If they're not used for leather, they've got to be disposed of some other way. (Though especially with cheaper imported leathers, there are gross pollutants involved in tanning etc.)
I do object to raising animals in unpleasant surroundings exclusively to harvest their fur. I don't think anyone needs that, and their deaths serve no other purpose. Small indigenous groups who take small numbers of wild animals for traditional purposes is one thing, Blackglama strikes me as entirely another.
I also think as long as we regard ourselves as beings of higher ethical development, we have an absolute obligation to these creatures to treat them as humanely as possible: give them space, allow them as many natural behaviours as is feasible, avoid causing pain.
Leather'll keep the wind out, but DH's leather jacket is a bit chilly for me! Michael's looks so yummy on him it trumps all other considerations for me!
(How's that for a circular post??)
It's a slow night at work so I did some googling and found this:
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Apologies is this has been posted before: I did a quick check.
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Apologies is this has been posted before: I did a quick check.
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