For many of us on this website, when we think of cows and pigs, we think of the horrors of factory farming. But for a rural community in Michigan, there are still family farms doing things the traditional way. And Dr. Jan Pol is their veterinarian.
Paul Shapiro is director of the HSUS’s Farm Animal Protection Division, which has driven farm animal welfare laws such as Proposition 2 in California, and other laws in Arizona, Michigan, Maine, Colorado and Oregon.
Movie star Doris Day gives rare interview to pop star Paul McCartney. They’re both mega-stars. But more important to each of them is their concern for animals.
As if sensing that she was next for the slaughterhouse, Yvonne the cow broke through an electric fence on a farm near Munich, and headed for the forest.
The race is on to see who can produce the first truly edible test-tube meat. So far, all that’s been produced are pale gray-looking, almost tasteless strips.
“I’ve said it a thousand times,” Wayne Pacelle, the President of HSUS, said on a recent visit to Iowa. “We do not want to end livestock production.”
It’s become routine, food recalled from grocery stores for fear of contamination. This time, it’s 36 million pounds of turkey taken off the shelves.
The factory farm lobby in Iowa is pushing hard for legislation to make it a crime to shoot undercover video of cruelty to animals. But in doing this, they may have shot themselves in the foot.
The HSUS has struck a deal with the UEP to pass a bill that will require factory farms nationwide to increase the space for egg-laying hens.
Another undercover factory farm video. This one shows piglets being abused at a facility that’s been patronized by some big grocery chains.
A bipartisan group of senators has re-introduced a bill to limit the use of antibiotics routinely fed to farm animals, especially in factory farms. In the…
Dramatic rise in their use threatens human health Photo courtesy of The Independent Three classes of antibiotics that are considered critical to modern medicine are now…
Animal welfare trumps factory farms Two months ago, it looked like the Iowa legislature would easily pass a new measure to stop animal protection groups capturing…
Abuse stokes public outrage Undercover video taken by Animals Australia, and the public anger that it fueled, has pushed the Australian government to stop the live…
The deadly E. coli bacteria that has so far killed 23 people and contaminated 2,330 in Europe, and that has already found its way to the United States.
The Russians stopped buying vegetables from Europe. Spain is furious their farmers were blamed by the Germans for being the source of the contamination. And nobody knows where the problem really lies.
New laws in Iowa, Minnesota and Florida would treat whistle blowers as criminals and make it illegal to take undercover photos and video of animal abuse at factory farms.
New wave of antibiotic-resistant superbugs prompts India to consider a groundbreaking plan to regulate the use of antibiotics on animals.
The World Health Organization delivered a sober message for World Health Day: Antibiotics are becoming less and less effective.
The Iowa State Legislature is preparing to vote on a bill that would make it illegal for undercover investigators to capture video of cows, pigs and other animals being abused at factory farms.