Love Dogs but Eat Pigs? It’s a Paradox
One of his friends calls herself a vegetarian even though she eats fish and chicken. “Well,” she says, “I don’t eat anything with a face.”
Zika Related to Cattle Farming?
It’s now an unfolding pandemic, and it may be caused in part by intensive cattle farming.
Some Sunlight for Chickens
Perdue Foods, announces new “humane” policies, like having windows in at least some of its chicken factory barns. Wow … windows!
Can There Ever Be a ‘Humane Economy’?
Is it possible for us humans to coexist peacefully with our fellow animals in a modern capitalist economy? Two books come to opposite conclusions.
Spot the Clone!
Hello again, viewers, and welcome back to America’s favorite quiz show: Spot the Clone! I’ll be your host as our contestants try to decide who the real clone is.
Egg Industry Concession Is No ‘Victory’
Here we go again. The factory farms make a small concession to public opinion, and the animal welfare establishment falls all over itself in joy, calling…
Pigs: Smart & Machiavellian
Winston Churchill famously said: “A dog looks up to you; a cat looks down on you; only a pig treats you as an equal.” But that,…
Walmart’s Animal Welfarism
Animal welfare groups are jumping for joy over Walmart’s latest animal welfare announcement. But it’s hard understand why. The company is asking its suppliers “to engage…
Humane Certified Salmonella
Foster Farms, a factory farm outfit that’s responsible for the worst salmonella outbreak on record, was the subject of a major investigative report by PBS’s Frontline…
Gov. Christie at the Pig Trough
Remember last November when Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would ban the use of gestation crates for mother pigs at factory farms in New…
Chickens with Flu and Pigs Who Dive
A few items from around the world of factory farming this week: Bird Flu in the U.S.: As of Tuesday, May 5th, just under 26 million…
California’s Dark Drought Secret
As usual when it comes to the topic of drought, there’s a giant elephant in the room that almost no one wants to talk about. In…
Utah to Chickens: "Screw You!"
Utah’s Attorney General is concerned for poor people. The new law in California that gives egg-laying chickens enough room to “lie down, stand up, fully extend…
Killing Them Softly
A headline last week in a trade publication called The Poultry Site proudly proclaimed: “Animal Welfare at Slaughter Improves in UK.” Welcome to the Orwellian world…
Secrets of the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
If you haven’t read the shocking, eye-opening report by the New York Times on the secret, government-operated US Meat Animal Research Center and its “one overarching…
AHA ‘Delighted’ with Butterball Turkey Factory
October 13th, 2013: Deputies raid a Butterball plant in North Carolina after allegations of animal abuse. Shocking video taken by Mercy For Animals shows employees kicking…
Hoofin’ It Up with the Humane Society
As some 90 diners trekked around four restaurants in Denver this week, Angela Huffman of the Humane Society of the United States, which is sponsoring the…
Baby Pigs Succumb to New Virus. Humans Next?
How alarmed should you be about the corona virus that’s killed seven million baby pigs in the last year? So far it hasn’t mutated into anything…
The Great Irony in Showtime’s Climate Show
There’s a terrible irony right there in the opening sequence of the first episode of the new Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously. Nelly Montez describes…
Does Religion Trump Animal Protection?
Denmark has been much in the news over the killing of Marius the giraffe in a Danish zoo. But not much has been said about the…