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March 6, 2014
Canada Bans Lifelong Confinement for Pigs in Controversial Gestation Crates
HSI/Canada welcomes the release of the ground-breaking new pork industry Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs, which includes a ban on continuously confining pregnant sows in gestation crates.
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November 19, 2013
ITC SONAR Kolkata Shows Leadership in Animal Welfare in Bengal
ITC SONAR Kolkata, leaders in the Bengal hospitality industry, switched to purchasing cage-free eggs.
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October 22, 2013
De nouvelles images démontrent les conditions épouvantables dans les élevages de poules pondeuses en cages
HSI/Canada appelle l’industrie ovocole à prendre des mesures immédiates pour mettre fin aux méthodes de confinement intensif pour les poules pondeuses.
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October 22, 2013
New Footage Shows Disturbing Conditions in Battery Cage Facilities
HSI/Canada called on the Canadian egg industry to establish a timeline to end the use of intensive confinement for laying hens.
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October 9, 2013
World Egg Day Highlights Growing Popularity of Cage-free Eggs
On World Egg Day, HSI highlights the growing popularity of cage-free eggs in Costa Rica. Cage-free eggs, known as huevos de pastoreo in Costa Rica, are eggs from chickens who are not confined to cages.
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October 8, 2013
Swami Agnivesh Urges Minister of Environment and Forests to End Battery Cages in India
President of World Council of Arya Samaj, Swami Agnivesh, is urging Minister of Environment and Forests to discontinue the extreme confinement of egg-laying hens in so-called barren ‘battery’ cages in India.
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October 1, 2013
Majority of Canadians Want Clearer Animal Welfare Labels
A poll by Environics Research Group revealed that 82 percent of Canadians want to see clearer labels on meat, dairy products and eggs indicating how animals were raised.
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August 6, 2013
Tens of Thousands of Canadians Call for Better Conditions for Pigs
A total of 21,251 Canadians have signed a statement calling on the National Farm Animal Care Council to introduce better conditions for pigs in its draft Code of Practice and Handling of Pigs.
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August 5, 2013
Google México Supports Animal Welfare Policy
Google México joined a growing number of corporations and food retailers around the world that are no longer using eggs from hens in barren battery cages.
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August 2, 2013
Alberta-Farm-Girl-Turned-Hollywood-Lead-Actress, Tricia Helfer, Urges Animal Welfare Reforms in Canadian Pork Industry
Actress Tricia Helfer advocated for Canada's pigs.
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July 24, 2013
Traveling for Farm Animals
Deputy Director of HSI Farm Animals Elissa Lane traveled across Latin America to speak out for farm animal welfare.
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July 11, 2013
Actor Ryan Gosling Calls for Elimination of Gestation Crates
Canadian actor and director Ryan Gosling penned a piece in the Globe and Mail calling on the National Farm Animal Care Council to eliminate the use of gestation crates in the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs.
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July 10, 2013
Quiznos Bolsters Animal Welfare Program by Eliminating Controversial Pig Cages from Pork Supply Chain
Quiznos, the pioneer of the toasted sandwich, announced it will work closely with its suppliers to eliminate controversial pig “gestation crates” from its supply chain between 2017 and 2022.
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June 17, 2013
Investments in Suffering
With financial backing of Member States in the European Union, international banks and credit agencies are investing in agricultural companies that fail to meet the EU’s standards for the humane treatment of farm animals.
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June 17, 2013
Factory Farming and Flu
Factory farming practices have been linked to swine flu and bird flu.
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June 1, 2013
Canada Set to Ban Lifelong Confinement of Pigs in Inhumane Cages as Retailers and Consumers Oppose Practice
The draft Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs would improve animal welfare in pork production Canada-wide by eliminating the perpetual confinement of pigs during pregnancy in gestation crates.
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May 31, 2013
Stopping the Spread of Intensive Confinement
HSI is working with international finance institutions, governments and international agricultural development organizations to stop the financing of massive agribusiness companies employing extreme confinement systems in developing and emerging economies.
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May 30, 2013
Overwhelming Majority of Canadians Support a Complete Phase Out of Inhumane Confinement of Breeding Pigs
Following a new Environics poll, HSI/Canada is renewing calls for the federal and provincial governments, pork producers, and other industry stakeholders to support a nation-wide ban on the use of these intensive farm animal confinement systems.
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May 23, 2013
Cage-Free in Calcutta
HSI and local celebrity food writer Salmoli Mukerji co-organized an event to raise awareness about cage-free farming.
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May 13, 2013
Hope for Hens: India Agrees That Battery Cages Are Illegal
HSI/India successfully persuaded the majority of Indian states--including the top egg producing states--to declare that confining hens to battery cages violates the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960.
