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That's One Expensive Hamburger
PETA offers $1 million for commercially viable test-tube meat |
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21 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:17 PM on 21 Apr 2008 PETA thinks the idea of test-tube meat looks like a million bucks. Literally. The outspoken animal-rights group is offering a cool one mil to the "first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012." The idea caused "a near civil war in our office," says PETA founder Ingrid Ne ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, food, news (all these topics) |
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Out of Harm's Safeway
Safeway agrees to animal-welfare standards for some products |
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12 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:02 AM on 12 Feb 2008 One of the largest grocery store chains in the United States, Safeway, has agreed to increase animal-welfare standards for some of the animal-derived products sold at its stores. Chickens and pigs were the focus of the most recent efforts pressuring the chain to adopt humane standards. Safeway has pledged to purchase more pork from suppliers that have started phasing out the most ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, business, food, news (all these topics) |
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Animal Rites
China drafting rules for humane slaughter of livestock |
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18 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 9:58 AM on 18 Dec 2007 Under pressure from international animal-rights advocates and food-safety organizations, China has announced it's drafting rules for the "humane" treatment and slaughter of livestock. The proposal recommends stunning animals before slaughter, ensuring as little time as possible passes between stunning and killing, making sure unloading platforms are at heights where pigs won't injure ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, China, food, news (all these topics) |
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Driving Us to Vegetarianism
Animal-rights groups say meat-eating worse for climate than driving |
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30 Aug 2007 |
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| Driving Us to Vegetarianism Animal-rights groups say meat-eating worse for climate than driving With which instrument do you cause more greenhouse-gas emissions: your car key or your fork? It's a question asked in an advertising campaign by the Humane Society, which, along with other big animal-rights groups, is striving to open consumers' eyes to an oft-overlooked connec ... |
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| Topics: advertising, animal welfare, food, green living, news, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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We Have Some Hypocritical Coworkers
Animal-rights groups point out the climatic effect of meat-eating |
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29 Aug 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:50 PM on 29 Aug 2007 With which instrument do you cause more greenhouse-gas emissions: your car key or your fork? It's a question asked in an advertising campaign by the Humane Society, which, along with other big animal-rights groups, is striving to open consumers' eyes to an oft-overlooked connection: the climatic impact of eating meat. Bolstered by a recent United Nations report ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, food, green living, news, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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