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Force-feeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As a result of force feeding, many birds die, most of them have difficulty to move or breathe, and all of them develop a terminal disease called hepatic lipidosis, which is the purpose of force-feeding. Force-feeding should not be confused with other forms of enteric feeding, where a patient is intubated through the nose or mouth and fed because he or she is incapable of swallowing due to some medical condition, rather than because he or she refuses to eat. Force-feeding of humans was a common practice in the USSR. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gavage   (871 words)

Feeding Behaviors Force Feeding: Force feeding is never an effective way of increasing dietary intake. Disturbances in the feeding relationship, consequences of diseases of prematurity that lead to feeding problems, and strong family concerns about feeding and growth can increase the risk. Early Infancy: Breastmilk or formula feedings should be offered at 2 to 3 hour intervals, progressing to 3 to 4 hour intervals as the infant matures. depts.washington.edu /growing/Feed/Behaprob.htm   (945 words)

Tampabay: Former Scientologist shares familiar tale of force-feeding McPherson, too, was recovering from a mental breakdown, and records show church staffers forced medicine and food into her throat. LEARWATER -- A former Scientologist from Denmark said Friday that he helped force bread, fruit and liquids into the throat of an unconscious woman as part of an effort help her recover from a mental breakdown. McPherson was the 36-year-old Scientologist whose 1995 death has resulted in criminal charges of abuse and practicing medicine without a license against the Church of Scientology in Clearwater. www.sptimes.com /TampaBay/120598/Former_Scientologist_.html   (786 words)

Feeding Force feeding sections of mouse tails is a relatively low stress method which works well with baby eastern milk snakes and other small subspecies. If continued disinterest in feeding is likely to jeopardize a male snake's health, he may have to be moved to a cage by himself, perhaps to a separate room away from the "aroma" of the females before he will resume feeding. Stop feeding of adults two weeks before planning to drop the temperatures for "hibernation." This will allow most of the stomach contents to be digested and eliminated before the cooling period. www.applegatereptiles.com /articles/bookfeeding.htm   (2485 words)

SuperSnakes--FAQ--Feeding Snakes The bottom line is this: only use force-feeding techniques when it's necessary to save the life of the snake. In terms of feeding, humidity should not be an issue for this species as long as it's within a normal household range. Maybe you should be questioning the person that sold you the snake about its feeding history, but remember that you may not get a completely honest answer at this point, and you may have to go with your own "gut feeling". www.supersnakes.com /faqfeeding.htm   (3489 words)

Force-feeding extracts from Purvis Whether force fed by a cup, tube through the nostril (the most common method) or tube down the throat into the stomach (the most painful), the individual suffragette struggled on her own and often feared damage to the mind or body. The forcible feeding of the disabled May Billinghurst in Holloway in January 1913 brought a particular wave of revulsion since she was “small, frail, and ha[d] been a cripple all her life”. “Forcible feeding was tried in vain”, she continues; “the prisoners struggled so violently against it that the process became actually dangerous, and the prison officials were obliged to let them starve till they came to the edge of physical collapse, and then to let them go”. www.johndclare.net /Women1_Forcefeeding_Purvis.htm   (2231 words)

1 FORCE FEEDING TRANSMITTERS: A TECHINQUE TO STUDY SNAKE’S REPROUCTIVE BIOLOGY IN THE FIELD Due to their particular feeding morphology, it is easy to force feed a transmitter to a snake to study its biology. Force feeding the transmitter to an adult male anaconda. The method of force feeding transmitters proved to be an effective means of studying the mating system of anacondas. pages.prodigy.net /anaconda/fedtrans.htm   (1310 words)

AR.net >> Illinois SB 413 - Ban on Force Feeding of Ducks and Geese Force feeding methods include, but are not limited to, delivering feed through a tube or other device inserted into the bird's esophagus. (2) "Force feeding a bird" means a process that causes the bird to consume more food than a typical bird of the same species would consume voluntarily. This Act may be cited as the Force Fed Birds Act. www.animalrights.net /archives/year/2005/000224.html   (189 words)

International Task Force - Artificial Feeding In fact, in court cases, expert witnesses have testified that "artificial feeding" can include spoon feeding and that the food brought on a tray to a patient in a convalescent home can be considered "medical treatment" because the patient's diet must receive physician approval. Over the years, the meaning of "artificial feeding" has expanded and the number of categories of people from whom it is removed has grown. Additionally, in extremely rare case, where the very means of providing food and fluids would be excessively burdensome and/or painful, a decision to withhold feeding in such a situation would be made to prevent subjecting the patient to the means itself. www.internationaltaskforce.org /fctaf.htm   (2299 words)

WSPA - Campaigns - World Farmwatch - Foie Gras - Force Feeding - The Facts WSPA - Campaigns - World Farmwatch - Foie Gras - Force Feeding - The Facts This feeding regime has devastating consequences for the welfare of ducks and geese. In order to deliver sufficient quantities of food quickly and efficiently, most ducks are kept permanently in individual cages, so small that they are unable to stand up or stretch their wings properly. www.wspa-international.org /site/index.php?page=179   (638 words)

New Jersey Breast Feeding Task Force The New Jersey Breastfeeding Task Force has expanded its focus to include the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Service objectives which are: for 75% of mothers to breastfeed at hospital discharge and for 90% of those mothers to breastfeed exclusively at discharge. The national breastfeeding goals, as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services are: for 75% of mothers to breastfeed their babies in the early postpartum period, for 50% to continue for six months and for 25% to continue to a year. On this web site you will find or soon find: membership information, meeting information, NJ breastfeeding legislation, any pending legislation, a calendar of events, media watch, lactation news, and links to other web sites. www.breastfeedingnj.org   (193 words)

Reduction of Ceramic Machining Defects by Regulated Force Feeding Grinding System In this study, the RFF grinding system was evaluated by examining fracture strength for ground Al Grinding forces of Al showed different tendency of grinding force increment as feeding depths increase for the CSF grinding tests and the RFF grinding tests.   The different tendency in grinding forces was caused by the relative difference of table feeding behavior for both grinding systems.   The different tendency in the grinding forces is caused by the differences of table-feeding behavior of both grinding methods. www.azom.com /details.asp?ArticleID=3006   (3803 words)

Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net The practitioner is forced to sit on the cement ground with their feet placed on a chair and their legs lifted. The perpetrators at the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City, Hebei Province shock the practitioner's sensitive body parts or acupuncture points with electric batons, including the top of their head, the back of their head, their lower backs and the soles of their feet. The perpetrators force a practitioner to sit in a special metal chair, in which the practitioner cannot move. clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2004/9/18/52552.html   (1555 words)

Force Feeding Now Europeans are seeing GMOs being forced down their throats by the powerful WTO dispute system. Until this GMO food challenge was launched, the focus this year had been on the Bush administration’s sneaky New Year’s Eve attempt to dramatically weaken the popular U.S. "dolphin-safe" tuna labeling regulation in the name of complying with a trade ruling. www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles4/Wallach_GMOs.htm   (489 words)

HFA [ S t o p F o r c e - F e e d i n g ] For purposes of this section: (a) “Force feeding” shall mean any process, whether implemented by hand or machine, of feeding birds by intubation for the purpose of enlarging the liver. (b) “Bird” shall mean and include, but not be limited to, any species of waterfowl such as goose, duck, the cross breed commonly known as the moulard or any genetically-manipulated hybrid raised for the purpose of force feeding. It shall be unlawful for any person to force feed any bird for the purpose of enlarging such bird’s liver beyond its normal size or any other purpose involving commercial sale of the bird. www.hfa.org /force_feeding/ny3330a_txt.html   (289 words)

Democratic Underground Forums - "Force-Feeding Sought for Arizona Man Detained After 9/11" Force feeding has been deemed a form of torture. And I have no problem with the fact that this prisoner is being force fed. We all know that sometimes prisoners have belts confiscated to prevent suicide, and they may have to obey other rules that they don't like, so broadening the policy to include supplying nutrients to a suicide-by-starvation prisoner doesn't seem that outragious. Now they want to force him to eat to keep him alive for a trial that is no doubt already decided.... www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/10887.html   (967 words)

NO Foie Gras - A Farm Sanctuary Campaign Foie gras is produced by force feeding ducks or geese large amounts of food so that their livers swell to up to 10 times normal size. Approximately 20,000 ducks are force fed and slaughtered every year by Sonoma Foie Gras, the sole California producer of foie gras. Moreover, the legislation is considered historic in the protection of animals, as it is one of a few times that a state has banned an inherently cruel factory farming practice. www.nofoiegras.org /FS_cabill_PR2.htm   (407 words)

BAN FORCE FEEDING OF DUCKS AND GEESE FOR FOIE GRAS Italy has passed a law to ban forced feeding by 2004. Organs are severely damaged by the feeding tube and by the excess amount of food in the birds’ bodies. which will make it unlawful to force feed a bird, by hand or machine, for the purpose of fatty enlargement of the bird’s liver. humanelobbyday.org /foiegras.html   (406 words)

Stop Force Feeding - Ban Foie Gras To produce it, young ducks or geese have over four pounds of corn mush forced down their throats through a long metal pipe each day for two to three weeks until they can barely move and are on the verge of organ rupture and death. In Defense of Animals and APRL sued under California's Unfair Business Practices law to force the passage of SB 1520, which Gov. Schwarzenegger signed in 2004 to ban both the production and sale of foie gras in California by 2012. The two groups are now spearheading a nationwide awareness initiative, wherein volunteers are displaying poster-size photos of the tortured birds from the animal cruelty investigations. www.stopforcefeeding.com /page.php?module=home   (364 words)

Animal Ethics Clarifier: an encyclopedia of animal ethics - Animal Experimentation Force feeding, poisoning, burning, gassing, electrocution and physical injury. Incarcerating, vivisecting or forcing behavioural experiments on animals is a fundamental violation of their animal rights. Claim: Deliberately giving animals diseases, like AIDS and hepatitis, forcing them to undergo major surgery and injecting them with untried drugs is cruel. www.wolftrust.org.uk /aec-a-entries-animalexp.html   (2106 words)

[NYTr] Prison force-feeding, from Pankhurst to Gitmo Force feeding didn’t work in the case of Emily Pankhurst and she had the law and the media on her side. sent by Simon McGuinness [With the US now force feeding 13 illegally detained persons in Guantanamo who were sold into slavery by its allies in Afghanistan and Iraq (see 2nd item below), it's interesting that this should be released after 70 years of secrecy by the British public records office. How much less effective will it be in the US gulag where no hope of release exists after 3-and-a-half-years of detention without trial for its occupants. tania.blythe-systems.com /pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20050905/023199.html   (1161 words)

WorldNetDaily: Court OKs forced feeding of prisoner While reports mount of elderly and disabled Americans being starved and dehydrated to death by denial of a feeding tube – sometimes by court order – a state court has approved the force-feeding of a convicted arsonist who was trying to starve himself to death. Although McNabb had argued that the feeding tube violated his right to decline medical treatment, the three-judge panel unanimously ruled: "The right to decline force-feeding is not absolute because the state has an interest in protecting the sanctity of the lives of its citizens." In a decision Thursday, Washington's Court of Appeals ruled that the state's Department of Corrections was within its rights when it forced a feeding tube on Charles R. McNabb to end his five-month hunger strike. www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44596   (573 words)

Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net He was forced to leave his home and became homeless even before he had recovered from his poor health condition. The guards forced him to stay in solitary cells, deprived him of sleep for long periods of time and beat him. They pressured his family members to force him to write the so-called "Guarantee Statement". clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2004/11/23/54842p.html   (593 words)

A Safe and Accurate Method for Force-feeding Small Granivorous Birds White- crowns that were stuffed to capacity by force-feeding of pellets tended to be quiescent, slowing their usual activity pattern for about 1 h before they resumed voluntary feeding. Preparation of food pellets.--We tested the suitability of several foods for force-feeding as pellets: semisyn- thetic diet, chick-starter mash, and millet, flax, rape, and canary seeds. White-crowned Spar- rows that were force-fed pellets at a rate near their voluntary rate of intake resumed their usual move- ment patterns soon after return to their cages. elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v103n02/p0429-p0431.html   (2491 words)

Foie Gras Force-feeding causes the liver to increase in size about 6-10 times compared to the normal size for a bird. Increased liver size forces the abdomen to expand, which makes moving difficult and painful. An enlarged abdomen increases the risk of damage to the stretched tissue of the lower part of the esophagus. www.hsus.org /ace/11507   (473 words)

Action Alert - Force Feeding of Ducks and Geese-Contact NY Attorney General - October 11, 2001 Please urge the New York State Attorney General's office to invoke the New York State Anti-Cruelty Law to stop the illegal practice of force feeding ducks and geese to produce foie gras. Force Feeding of Ducks and Geese - Contact NY Attorney General Birds have literally exploded from these forced feedings. www.upc-online.org /011011force_feeding_ny.html   (267 words)

Law targets force-feeding of birds for foie gras The San Diego Union-Tribune SACRAMENTO – California will end the force feeding of ducks, geese and other birds to produce the gourmet liver product foie gras by 2012 under legislation signed last week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger. The bill's author, Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, said several countries have already banned the force feeding practice and the European Union is phasing it out. The bill will also ban the sale of foie gras in California starting that same year if it's obtained by force feeding birds. www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041006/news_1f6phaseout.html   (305 words)

Force Feeding of 22 Detainees at Guantanamo : SF Bay Area Indymedia Force Feeding of 22 Detainees at Guantanamo : SF Bay Area Indymedia The ICRC backs a 1975 Tokyo declaration by the World Medical Association stating that doctors should not participate in force-feeding, but keep prisoners informed of the sometimes irreversible consequences of their hunger strike, she added. Amnesty International and human-rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, representing 40 detainees, said on Thursday that US authorities were keeping 21 alive by forcing food into their stomachs through tubes pushed up their noses. www.indybay.org /news/2005/10/1773001.php   (587 words)

Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations A practical force-feeding method that was employed to study the effects of chronic feeding of Sr/sup 90/-- Y/sup 90/ to yearling trout is described. The basic procedures in the method are to prepare gelatin capsules with measured amounts of isotope solution and to eject the capsule with the aid of a special ramrod into the stomach of an anesthetized fish. www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=4636370   (178 words)

Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Couple killed boy by force feeding him salt The prosecution claimed the married couple, of Halesowen, West Midlands, force fed Christian up to four teaspoons of salt as a punishment. The jury at Worcester crown court had heard during a seven week trial that the Gays were keen to adopt and had been allowed to take Christian, his one-year-old brother and their baby sister for a 13-week trial in November 2002. Ian and Angela Gay were cleared of murdering Christian Blewitt but were convicted of the manslaughter of the youngster, who died of a head injury and was found to have excess levels of salt in his blood. www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1389883,00.html   (960 words)

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