Bird Flu, Pig Flu, Now Seal Flu
A new strain of bird flu has adapted to harbor seals. The H3N8 strain was discovered after 162 seals were found dead on the beaches of…
Pork Council: "Ask a Pig If She’s Happy"
Why is the National Pork Producers Council worried that new laws may give chickens a few inches more space? Because it may be the thin end…
Pig Factories: ‘We’re Humane’
Old McDonald had a farm. But those kinds of farms are long gone. In today’s world, McDonalds has factory farms that it contracts with. And what…
Bird Flu Strikes Mexico–2.5 mil Chickens Killed
Chickens at a factory farm in Mexico Two and a half million chickens have been slaughtered in the last few weeks in 31 factory farms in…
When Religion Means Cruelty to Animals
What are the proper limits of religious freedom? Marianne Thieme, leader of the Party for the Animals in the Netherlands, offers this answer: “Religious freedom stops…
All Dressed Up for Their Last Foie Gras Spree
There’s something quite chilling about this series of photos, taken by Marcio Jose Sanchez at the Sent Sovi restaurant in Saratoga, California. The diners were gathered…
More from the Wyoming Pig Factory Farm
“When you walk in, all of these sows are showing this volume of insanity. They’re swaying, they’re biting the bars, they’re listing in front of the…
Yet More Antibiotics in Feed Lots
It’s bad enough that animals at factory farms are being dosed up with antibiotics. Now we’re learning that they’re getting a whole other source of antibiotics, too – not just the kinds that come directly from the pharmaceutical industry.
All You Can Eat
Two-thirds of adults and one-third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. We’re not only eating ourselves to death; the “food” we eat is actively poisoning us. And some of it is poisoning the planet, too.
Latest Pig Factory Shocker
A worker kicks one of the pigs in this video from the HSUS As legislators in farm states keep scrambling to ban undercover investigations, the shocking…
Chefs’ Last Ditch Stand to Keep Serving Foie Gras
Two months ago, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck wrote to fellow chefs in California asking them to join him in embracing the state’s new law banning foie…
California Dairy Cow Had Mad Cow Disease
The first case in six years of a cow with mad cow disease (properly called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) has been found in California. The…
The One Way to Celebrate Earth Day
This Sunday, you can celebrate Earth Day by recycling something, joining a group that’s picking up old cans and bottles, taking a reusable shopping bag to the supermarket …Or you can do the one thing that will really make a difference.
FDA to Drug Companies: Stop Dosing Food Animals with Antibiotics
The Food and Drug Administration has finally called on drug companies to limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals, a practice that is contributing to…
Another Chicken Factory Farm Busted
In the latest undercover investigation into animal abuse at factory farms, we see, in the same cages as living chickens, birds who have been dead so…
Iowa Governor Defends Pink Slime
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is on massive damage control in the wake of public revulsion to the idea of “pink slime” in their beef. Wearing a…
Arsenic and Old Feathers
Today, yet another food revelation: Chickens on factory farms are routinely fed acetaminophen (as in Tylenol), along with the same antihistamine you find in Benadryl, the antidepressant that’s featured in Prozac, plus various antimicrobials, and, yes, arsenic.
Pink Slime "Just a Symptom" of What’s Wrong with Meat Production
What pink slime represents is an open admission by the food industry that it is hard-pressed to produce meat that won’t make you sick. Because, I hate to break it to you folks, but ammonium hydroxide is just one in a long list of unlabeled chemical treatments used on almost all industrial meat and poultry.
Farm Bureau Employee Caught on Office Camera
Police were called to the offices of the Iowa Farm Bureau to investigate the case of an employee who had been caught urinating on the office chairs of four female co-workers.
Everything You Wanted to Know about Pink Slime
More and more supermarkets and burger sellers are joining the list of people who say they will no longer sell beef that includes the so-called “pink slime” – a ground up mixture of fatty bits from other cuts of meat and treated with ammonia to enable it to meet food safety standards.