That said, the label does not mean the product itself is nutritious (organic chocolate frosting is still chocolate frosting), nor does it ensure rigorous animal welfare standards, so if animal welfare is important to you, organic is not the one to focus on.
Mr. Day said the Canadian seal hunt "is guided by rigorous animal welfare principles".
Such "home demo" protests, most of which are legal, according to the F.B.I., have succeeded in intimidating executives at dozens of companies into ending business relationships with Huntingdon and have helped push executives of fast-food restaurants and grocery chains to adopt more rigorous animal welfare standards.
Further, in accordance with the relevant regulations, all pre-clinical and clinical xenotransplantation studies are required to meet rigorous animal welfare standards (proposed Guideline 1) (XWP 2003a, 158).
But that is what researchers have found in separate, rigorous studies of welfare programs in Connecticut and Iowa.
While large-scale rigorous research on welfare-to-work programs has demonstrated effectiveness towards employment in other countries, no such micro-level evaluation of a policy has ever been conducted in Singapore.
Rigorous randomised evaluations of welfare programmes in the USA and Canada have generally found decreased levels of depression in welfare recipients except when financial incentives were tied to employment mandates.
Rigorous evaluation of 11 welfare programs in six states provides "strikingly consistent evidence" of the benefits to children, Dr. Gueron said in an interview.
His protagonist, falling asleep in the Boston of the 1880s, awakes 113 years later to discover a world in which all social divisions have been resolved by a corporatist system that integrates private enterprise and universal welfare through rigorous centralised planning.
A statement read: "Tate has undertaken a number of rigorous processes to ensure the welfare of the birds in Oiticica's Tropicália.
