Articles Tagged with ''animal welfare''

A coalition of animal welfare groups has gathered enough signatures to place a measure on the November ballot in California that would require all egg-laying hens be cage-free by 2022.

Growing public concern over animal welfare is driving the need to examine the impact of large-scale production systems on animals' quality of life, a new report from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology says.

WASHINGTON, August 30, 2017 - Animal welfare activists are optimistic that a series of bills they are pushing have enough bipartisan support to get included in both the House and Senate versions of a new farm bill. At the same time, activists are bracing for a possible battle over attempts to block individual states from regulating the way farm animals are produced.