Winter 2005
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Horrific Treatment Captured at Kosher Slaughterhouse Workers at AgriProcessors kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa rip the trachea from conscious cows and dump the animals onto a concrete floor-as blood streams from their throats and they writhe in agony-in footage documented in a recent investigation by People... more...
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They Whale They Couldn't Catch Mawachaht/Muchalaht paddlers steer Luna away from the DFO capture team boat. Keith Wood Before Chief Ambrose MaQuinna of the... more...
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Glynwood Harvest Award AWI and some of its colleagues were honored with a Glynwood Harvest Award last October in New York City for "Connecting Communities, Farmers and Food." A prestigious selection committee chose a project conducted by AWI, Wisconsin farmers Bert and Trish Paris and... more...
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Honoring Olympic and Conservation Champions CITES COP 13, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2-14, 2004 More than 500 delegates participating in the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on... more...
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Random Source Dealer Surrenders Justice has been served to Buck and the thousands of ill-fated dogs and cats who passed through Class B dealer C.C. Baird's hands. The owner of Martin Creek Kennels in Williford, Ark. has surrendered his license to operate as a dealer to the US... more...
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Enter the Meatrix Curriculum Contest Check out The Meatrix, http://www.awionline.org/ht/d/ContentDetails/i/1536/pid/2506 , a 4-minute animated movie that spoofs The Matrix films and highlights the problems of factory farming. A contest based on The Meatrix is underway!... more...
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Great Danes? Not in Poland.
Danish Agribusiness Seizes Poland's Fomer story by Tom Garrett On a quiet Sunday morning last June, Marek Kryda and I drove west from Gdansk through the forests and farm villages of the former Polish Corridor. Our focus was Poldanor, a Danish hog factory operation that preceded Smithfield Foods in... more... -
Ivory Dealers Arrested on Chinese Ship Results of an undercover operation into Chinese involvement in illegal ivory trading. photos: LAGA story by Ofir Drori, The Last Great... more...
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SAPL: Horse Protection Readdressed by Legislation wild horse photo by Hope Ryden Time after time, animal advocates suffer the indignity of watching the legislative... more...
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Too Close for Comfort story and photos by Adam M. Roberts Photos, from top: Unlocked gate brings a tiger too close to the author; countless tiger cubs were brought to visitors who feed them bottles of milk; the massive entrance to Sriracha... more...
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The New Muckraker /* */ Investigator Extraordinaire Gail Eisnitz Wins AWI's Albert Schweitzer Award for Standing Up to Government and Meat Industry... more...
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New Wildlife Law Enforcement Tool in Cameroon The Last Great Ape Organisation (LAGA) has published a new book through the Ministry of Environment and Forestry entitled The Wildlife Law as a Tool for Protecting Threatened Species in Cameroon. The goal of the document is to make information regarding complex and... more...
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A Race to Save Threatened and Endangered Species CITES COP 13, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2-14, 2004 International attention to the plight of Africa's lions is essential for their long-term... more...
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Women Who Dedicated Their Lives to Animals Ann Cottrell Free (1916-2004) Colman McCarthy: As a newspaperwoman who knew the score, as well as how to keep score, Ann Free understood the care and feeding—and cajoling—of the media. She was one of my most reliable sources. When needing the skinny on the... more...
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Nations Scheme to Lift Whaling Ban The icon of the Save the Whales campaign, Flo the inflatable whale, was a regular Washington, DC visitor in the 1970s. johnperrystudio.com... more...
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AWI Endorses Campaign to End Use of Great Apes in Film and Television Regular beatings turn innocent chimps into circus performers. PETA AWI reviewed with revulsion Serving a Life Sentence... more...
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AWI's Standards for Cattle and Sheep
Put Other Criteria Out to Pasture Tens of millions of cattle and lambs are raised for meat each year in the United States. Large numbers of these sentient beings are subjected to barren feedlots, painful mutilations and unnatural diets that most consumers do not wish to acknowledge. But with the development of AWI's husbandry... more...
