The Rights Of Animals-Newsweek

[Guest guest]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/169881

 

FOOD

The Rights Of Animals

California voters have put the animal-rights movement squarely in the

mainstream. Will we all soon be vegans?

 

PHOTOS

Grim Menagerie

A look inside the global trade in exotic animals

 

 

The notion that animals should have rights was widely ridiculed when it was

first advocated in the 1970s. Now it is getting more respect. The movement has

gained tens of millions of adherents and has already persuaded the European

Union to require that all hens have room to stretch their wings, perch and lay

their eggs in a nest box, and to phase out keeping pigs and veal calves in

individual crates too narrow for them to walk or turn around. And earlier this

month Californians voted 63 percent to 37 percent for a measure that, beginning

in 2015, gives all farm animals the right to stand up, lie down, turn around and

fully extend their limbs. The state's 45 major egg producers will have to rip

out the cages that now hold 19 million hens, and either put in new and larger

cages with fewer birds or, more likely, keep the birds on the floor in large

sheds. California's sole large-scale pig-factory farm will also have to give all

its pigs room to turn around.

[Guest guest]

Hmmm...if we were all vegans, that'd rock! Imagine how different the

world would be! At least we're moving in the right direction for

animal welfare. Have you all signed the animal rights petition at

www.AnimalBillofRights.com? If you haven't, I highly recommend it and

of course, pass along this website to anyone and everyone.

 

Thanks,

Debra

 

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> http://www.newsweek.com/id/169881

>

> FOOD

> The Rights Of Animals

> California voters have put the animal-rights movement squarely in

the mainstream. Will we all soon be vegans?

>

> PHOTOS

> Grim Menagerie

> A look inside the global trade in exotic animals

>

>

> The notion that animals should have rights was widely ridiculed

when it was first advocated in the 1970s. Now it is getting more

respect. The movement has gained tens of millions of adherents and has

already persuaded the European Union to require that all hens have

room to stretch their wings, perch and lay their eggs in a nest box,

and to phase out keeping pigs and veal calves in individual crates too

narrow for them to walk or turn around. And earlier this month

Californians voted 63 percent to 37 percent for a measure that,

beginning in 2015, gives all farm animals the right to stand up, lie

down, turn around and fully extend their limbs. The state's 45 major

egg producers will have to rip out the cages that now hold 19 million

hens, and either put in new and larger cages with fewer birds or, more

likely, keep the birds on the floor in large sheds. California's sole

large-scale pig-factory farm will also have to give all its pigs room

to turn around.

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