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Major Grocery Chains Pledge Action on Gestation Stalls by 2022
2013-05-06 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - Canada’s major grocery chains say they will move toward buying pork products from farms that use more humane practices.
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Major Grocery Chains Pledge Action on Gestation Stalls
2013-05-06 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - Canada’s major grocery chains say they will move toward buying pork products from farms that use more humane practices by 2022.
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Ind. coal-gas bill stalls C02 pipeline project
2013-05-04 17:23:15| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Legislation state lawmakers passed last week that the developers of a proposed Indiana coal-gasification plant say effectively kills their project also has dealt a blow to a Texas company's plans for a pipeline that would carry carbon dioxide to the Deep South for extracting oil from depleted Gulf Coast oil fields.
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Supermarket Council Takes Stand against Sow Stalls
2013-05-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The Retail Council of Canada announced that all eight of the largest Canadian supermarket chains — Walmart Canada, Costco Canada, Metro, Loblaw, Safeway Canada, Federated Co-operatives, Sobeys and Co-op Atlantic — will move away from gestation crate confinement of pigs in their supply systems over the next nine years.
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Fear of Robo-Cars Stalls Support for Driverless Cars in Oregon
2013-04-22 04:36:00| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Oregon is not going along with neighboring states California and Nevada in supporting driverless cars. House Bill 2428 sought to establish a process for allow the operation of autonomous vehicles in Oregon but it died in committee. Opposition and concern was voiced over having a robotic vehicle controlling what happens on the road. One legislator threw a curveball what if terrorists used a bomb car driven by a drone to pull off the next Boston Marathon-type attack? Another wedge that split up support for the bill was that the Oregon Department of Transportation put out an alternative why not test out a partially automated connected car, and use that test data to go forward later with a driverless car test program? Debate in the state of Oregon was going on around the same time as panelists were exploring the status of driverless cars at the 2013 Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit. Christian Schumacher of automotive supplier Continental talked about a driverless car his company is testing. He thinks partially automated cars will on roads in significant numbers by 2016, more highly automated versions by 2020, and driverless by 2025. His peers agreed on the 2025 forecast for driverless cars. Click here to dig into some of the key issues that driverless car technology must hurdle if its going to be adopted around the country. Oregon overall is known for being a libertarian state the state legislature may have been expressing the get big brother off my back sensibility. But Oregon is not the only state where youll hear those concerns expressed. The Article Fear of Robo-Cars Stalls Support for Driverless Cars in Oregon appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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