Vegan News 5.1.13

By Published On: 1 May 2013Last Updated: 17 January 2017

Pig cruelty video affects Canadian grocers, Ag-gag law prohibits photography from public street?, 5 butterfly species vanished, Nottingham Falcons have babies.

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Pig cruelty video has the desired effect, grocers press for humane conditions. “Eight of Canada’s biggest grocery chains announced today that they would phase out pork raised in facilities employing restrictive gestation crates. Safeway, Wal-Mart, Costco, Sobeys (Thrifty Foods) and Loblaw (Real Canadian Superstore) are among the grocers active in Western Canada supporting more humane practices in pig rearing. The chains agreed to phase out pork produced with outdated practices by the end of 2022.” That’s 9 years from now. And millions of pigs.

A Utah Woman Is Being Prosecuted for Filming a Slaughterhouse from a Public Street. “The United States’ first prosecution under so-called ag-gag legislation has begun. Will Potter reports at Green Is The New Red that a Utah woman, Amy Meyer, has been charged under the state’s new law prohibiting filming or photographing an agricultural operation, factory farm, slaughterhouse, or the like without permission. Critical in all this is that Meyer was standing alongside a public street, documenting something occurring in plain view.”

5 Butterfly Species Just Vanished While No One Was Looking. “An entomologist hired by the state of Florida to find any surviving members of five rare butterflies species spent six years on the search instead of the two without finding any. ‘I thought I was going to find some at some point so I just took a lot more time,’ Marc Minno told the Miami Herald. ‘They’re just not there.’ He concluded that the Zestos skipper and the rockland Meske’s skipper—which haven’t been seen in more than a decade—should be declared extinct, that the Zarucco duskywing is likely extinct too, and that the nickerbean blue and the Bahamian swallowtail are now gone from their North American range: the coastal and inland forests of southern Florida.”

Falcon chicks defy cold spring to hatch on Nottingham roof. “Three peregrine falcon chicks have successfully hatched on the ledge of a city centre building belonging to Nottingham Trent University. Experts had been concerned about the effect of the cold weather on the eggs. The parent birds, now feeding their brood, have attracted a global following, as their lives are recorded with a live camera and are the subject of a blog.”

Photo credit: James Good via Flickr

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