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Animal Welfare
The AVMA, American Veterinary Medical Association, has once again
disappointed animal welfare activists (August 2006). At their recent annual meeting the
AVMA, representing veterinarians across the United States, refused to place
animal welfare over the economic interests of agribusiness.
Farm Sanctuary had introduced a resolution stating that "veterinarians have
an ethical obligation to promote animal welfare.” However, the AVMA
counteracted this resolution with one of their own in which they support
"responsible use of animals for human purposes" without defining what is
“responsible.” Farm Sanctuary had been urging the AVMA not to support
"irresponsible" farming systems, including the severe confinement of
pregnant sows in gestation crates and calves in veal crates, crowded battery
cages for egg-laying hens and the brutal force-feeding of ducks for foie
gras, which the AVMA denied. The American Veterinary Medical Association has
failed farm animals and those who are concerned about them.
Read more at Animal Issues
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