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Statistics

This blog had 1,182 visits during March, which is an average of 38.1 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 49.0.

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This blog had 910 visits during February, which is an average of 32.5 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 43.0.

Ten Years Gone

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This blog had 955 visits during January, which is an average of 30.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 36.5.

Ten Years Gone

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From Today's New York Times

To the Editor:

As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“Hens, Unbound,” column, Jan. 1).

The tiny cages and crates that confine about 90 percent of laying hens and more than 80 percent of gestating sows are both physically and mentally tormenting for the animals involved.

Physically, the muscles and the bones of the animals atrophy from lack of use. Mentally, they go insane from boredom and stress, just as our dogs or cats would if they were kept in tiny crates or carriers for their entire lives.

There is no difference between cruelty to a pig or a dog or a hen or a cat, and so the sooner we relegate these awful devices to the dustbin of history, the better.

BRUCE G. FRIEDRICH
Washington, Jan. 1, 2015

The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.

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This blog had 1,246 visits during December, which is an average of 40.1 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 56.5.

Ten Years Gone

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This blog had 1,530 visits during November, which is an average of 51.0 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 73.6.

Ten Years Gone

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Anniversary

I started this blog 11 years ago today. It's not quite dead, because I still post statistics every month, but I no longer post anything substantive. Evidently, some people still find its posts useful.

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This blog had 1,201 visits during October, which is an average of 38.7 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 57.5.

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Ten Years Gone

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This blog had 812 visits during September, which is an average of 27.0 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 44.9.

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This blog had 660 visits during August, which is an average of 21.2 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 27.9.

Ten Years Gone

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Ten Years Gone

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This blog had 763 visits during July, which is an average of 24.6 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 34.5.