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Would you take your dog to a veterinarian who thought it was perfectly fine to keep animals in small crates with cement floors for most of their lives? Would you take your cat to a veterinarian who insisted that it was healthy and normal to ram a tube down her throat and force-feed her until her liver became swollen and diseased? If your vet is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), then the answer might be “yes.”

The AVMA—which represents more than 55,000 of the almost 65,000 veterinarians in the United States—makes decisions every day that hurt animals such as pigs, ducks, and geese in ways that would be illegal if done to dogs and cats. The AVMA supports the hideously cruel factory-farming industry by allowing industry representatives to push through anti-animal endorsements for the use of gestation crates for pigs and by failing to condemn the force-feeding of birds for foie gras production, steamrolling over any objections from concerned AVMA veterinarians. Read more. »

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Pigs on Factory Farms

The Grief Behind Foie Gras

Pigs are curious and insightful animals thought to have intelligence beyond that of an average 3-year-old human child. They are smarter than dogs and every bit as friendly, loyal, and affectionate. Scientists and scholars who have studied pigs say that pigs are the smartest animals after primates. Says Dr. Donald Broom, scientific advisor to the British government, “[Pigs] have the cognitive ability to be quite sophisticated. Even more so than dogs and certainly three-year-olds.” Read more. »

Geese are very loyal to their families and very protective of their partners and offspring. If a goose’s mate or chicks become sick or injured, she will often refuse to leave their side, even if winter is approaching and the other geese in her group are flying south. After a partner dies, some geese spend the rest of their lives as widows, refusing to mate again. This can be a long time because geese can live for 25 years. Read more. »

James Cromwell Takes on the AVMA

AVMA Conference Brings Protest and Victory

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