Most of it is rendered into animal feed for cattle, chickens, pigs and, ironically, for farm-raised salmon. It takes 30 to 50 fish caught from the ocean to raise and market one farm-raised salmon. Captain Jacques Cousteau told me not long before he died that “the oceans are dying in...
POULTRY as foodPOULTRY industrySLAUGHTERINGThe withdrawal period after treatment with microbials is established to minimize the concentration of residues in meat of treated pigs or poultry. Even Food Chain has very precise rules about sending or not animals to slaughter befo...
mates had a practice run at raising 10 of our pigs on a nearby property as a learning exercise (handling everything from feed and pig moves in a mobile system to advertising, selling, butchering and delivering the meat), and donated their earnings from the experiment to the future abattoir...
Pigs love to be scratched, rubbed and massaged. Most pigs don't like to be picked up, but will gladly lie with you and enjoy a long cuddle. What should I not feed my pot belly pig? What a domestic pig should not eat. Potbellied pigs are not being fattened up for slaughter, so the...
Manure at feed lots is not always properly disposed of, leading to foul odors, harmful natural gases, and the potential for leaching into the groundwater, contaminating local groundwater/drinking water supplies. Water pollution is by far the largest environmental impact. Research has shown that ...
To appear in The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, ed. John Doris and Manuel Vargas. New York: Oxford University Press. Anil, M.Haluk, Justin L. McKinstry, M. Field, and Richard G. Rodway. 1997. Lack of Evidence for Stress Being Caused to Pigs by Witnessing the Slaughter of ...
Spread of the coronavirus has exposed troubling problems at fur farms and how we respond to outbreaks there.
"Secretary Clinton". He spent more than a third of the time allotted to question her about emails. But it did accomplish one thing: She finally gave the right answer, something she seemed incapable of before: "I communicated about classified information on a wholly separate system," she told...
I know that people on the low-carb or Paleo diets don’t want to hear this, but the source of your protein really does matter. This recently publishedstudyfound anincreased risk of dying for those who consumed more animal productswho had one other lifestyle risk factor such as smoking, ph...
impregnated as early in their life and as often as possible, just so we can steal their milk and raise their babies for slaughter or to become future milk cows. Hens do not give consent to be put in large sheds with their feed and source of light manipulated to get them to produce egg...