Whole Foods to Introduce Animal Welfare Ratings

By Jan. 1, 2011, Whole Foods plans to implement an animal welfare rating program at all its stores, company co-founder John Mackey said in an interview…

Caged Chicken Are Suffering, Said Animal Welfare Groups

In more than one state, farmers and egg producers received a statement warning them from using small cages for hens. Although not confirmed yet, the 550 million eggs, which were reported to have been contaminated with salmonella, came from hens that were crammed in a hen house. This hen house was a “battery cages”…

Abolish Meat? A Worldwide Campaign

Carnivorous, are you? Does a worldwide week for the abolition of meat sound too radical? Does it conjure up visions of vegans chaining you to a chair and force-feeding tofu everything? The fear of change is part of human nature…

Egg industry fighting efforts to increase cage sizes

Even before the recent salmonella outbreak, the nation’s egg industry was struggling to fend off another threat: allegations that it was cruel to chickens…

Protesters picket horse slaughter hearing

Animal rights activists demonstrated outside the Metro Justice building where two men accused of animal cruelty were scheduled to face a judge inside, Tuesday morning. However, Santiago Cabrera, 20, and Luis Cordero, 19, turned down their right to appear in court for their pre-trial hearing…

Animal rights group condemns veal industry

An animal rights group on Tuesday, Aug. 31, called on the newly created Ohio Livestock Standards Board to come up with rules that phase out the practice of chaining male calves in narrow crates so that they someday become tender veal cutlets…

Costco speaks out on veal supplier’s tactics

Costco Wholesale Corp. has condemned a veal producer’s treatment of calves after seeing footage shot by an animal rights group. The group, Mercy for Animals, released video this week that it said was taken by hidden recorders at Buckeye Veal Farm in Apple Creek, Ohio. It shows calves chained inside small stalls where they are [...]

10 ways vegetarianism can help save the planet

The average British carnivore eats more than 11,000 animals in their lifetime, each requiring vast amounts of land, fuel and water to reach the plate. It’s time to think of waste as well as taste…

This little piggy went to market

It could be a factory farm anywhere in Australia producing the pigs, chickens, eggs which will eventually come to a supermarket near you. The work is poorly paid, monotonous, odorous and sometimes calls for workers to turn a blind eye to conditions which should have the place shut down…

The challenges and rewards of being vegetarian in Korea

Recently Kim Ji-sook, 26, confessed to her boss that she is a vegan. Ever since, she said, he’s made her feel like a member of a strange cult…

Book: A Review of “Gristle”

I first picked up “Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)” because of its bright yellow cover. As a new vegetarian, when I saw it was about the implications of factory farming, I was intrigued…

Convicted farmer had appalling record of cruelty

The Iowa attorney general called him a “habitual violator” of state laws. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich called his farms “atrocious.” A federal investigator said it was “inconceivable” he didn’t know his farms’ conditions…

Why Factory Farms Threaten Your Health

by John Robbins. “One of the techniques modern factory farms routinely use to increase weight in livestock is to give all of the animals a dose of antibiotics with every meal. When this is done, the bacteria in the animals’ guts that are susceptible to the drugs are killed”…

Butcher defends horse meat trade

The butcher who has been given the go-ahead to sell horse meat for human consumption says there has been a small black market in it in Australia for years…

No charges for Ohio farm owner in cow abuse case

The owner of a central Ohio farm won’t face charges in connection with a video showing cattle being beaten and poked with pitchforks, a prosecutor announced Tuesday…

State’s deal with HSUS might not be end of conflict

For months, the specter of a fall statewide issue related to animal cruelty promised to create a showdown between animal activists and the farming community in Ohio…

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