Environment
Natural Behavior, Animal Rights, or Making Money - A Study of Swedish Organic Farmers' View of Animal Issues
Submitted on Jan 04, 2009 (Original item from 2003) Farmed Animals
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This journal article describes results from a study of animal farmers in Sweden that operate organically. The study aimed to understand farmers' attitudes regarding animal welfare and husbandry, as well as animal rights and organic farming in general.
Data Show Individual Poultry Operations Emit Hundreds of Thousands of Lbs of Ammonia
Submitted on Dec 21, 2008 (Original item from 2008) Farmed Animals
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The Environmental Integrity Project was established by attorneys who formally worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This report states that chicken farmers in the top 10 states released an estimated 482 million pounds of ammonia in 2007, more than eight times the combined total reported by industrial sources such as steel mills and oil refineries.
Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking Advocacy
Submitted by Che Green on Dec 16, 2008 Advocacy Strategies | General Animal ProtectionIn his recent essay, "A Case for a New Green Politics," environmentalist James Gustave Speth argues that the environmental movement must be more aggressive and far-thinking in its approach. Speth, who is also dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, says there has been a lack of focus on "deeper approaches to change." Although the essay is primarily directed at environmentalists, it offers interesting challenges to the conventional wisdom that is also held by many animal advocates.
What is a Good Decision? Criteria for Environmental Decision Making
Submitted on Dec 16, 2008 (Original item from 2006) Advocacy Strategies | General Animal Protection
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This article suggests six criteria for evaluating environmental decisions: human and environmental
well-being; competence about facts and values; fairness in
process and outcome; a reliance on human strengths rather
than weaknesses; the opportunity to learn; and efficiency.
Gender and Environmentalism: Results from the 1993 General Social Survey
Submitted on Dec 15, 2008 (Original item from 1997) General Animal Protection
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This article provides an in-depth examination of the 1993 General Social Survey results to explore the theory that women are more concerned than men when it comes to issues including environmental protection and animal rights.
"Carniculture" and the Future of In Vitro Meat
Submitted by Che Green on Dec 09, 2008 Advocacy Strategies | Farmed Animals | Vegetarianism and VeganismReaders of this blog will already know that I have a thing for lab meat. I have written in the past that successful production and commercialization of in vitro animal flesh would reduce animal suffering by an estimated 98%, without ever having to convince anyone about "animal rights." Simply taking animals out of the equation does nothing to help progress human morality, of course, but it would profoundly help those animals who are raised and slaughtered for food. For animal advocates, it should be an obvious choice to support in vitro meat.
Attitudinal and Normative Influences on Support for Hunting as a Wildlife Management Strategy
Submitted on Nov 30, 2008 (Original item from 2003) Wildlife and Exotics
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Hunting as a wildlife management tool has come under increasing attack by antihunting organizations, resulting in increased concern by fish and wildlife agencies across North America, many of whom fear that the scientific
management of wildlife is in danger due to the influence of an uninformed public. This study of Manitoba (Canada) residents indicated support for hunting as wildlife management, for habitat preservation, and to maintain
healthy animal populations. [Excerpted from published abstract].
OPINION: Chinese Farms a Growing Challenge
Submitted on Nov 27, 2008 (Original item from 2008) Farmed Animals
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This report describes the trend of increasing per capita meat consumption in China and its environmental impacts. The authors suggest undertaking a critical examination of industrial animal agriculture to help prevent large-scale environmental issues. The report includes statistics describing China's factory farming industry.
Conservation, Human Rights, and Poverty Reduction
Submitted on Nov 24, 2008 (Original item from 2006) Wildlife and Exotics
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This article from Conservation Biology examines the social impacts of conservation and poverty, including "reconciliation ecology," the balancing of the interests in preserving protected areas versus the interests of humans living in these areas.
New NMI Research Finds More Than 80% of U.S. Adults Show Some Type of Green Motivation
Submitted on Nov 15, 2008 (Original item from 2008) Diet and Nutrition
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According to research by Natural Marketing Institute (NMI), more than 80% of the total U.S. adult population show some type of "green motivation." Moreover, the number of consumers who are "sustainability active" has increased since 2004 and now extends to several consumer segments identified by NMI.
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