Food & Fiber

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) on Monday announced he would veto controversial legislation that would have made it harder to expose animal abuse. “Our office has spent a great deal of time considering this legislation,” he said in a statement. “We’ve had a lot of input from people on all sides of the issue. After careful consideration, I am going to veto the legislation. Some vetoes ar… Read More

So gut-wrenching are the images — cows being shocked, turkeys being stomped, horses being burned with chemicals, piglets kicked like soccer balls — that the videos recorded by animal rights organizations at factory farms are almost impossible to watch. That, though, has helped make them effective tools in the fight against illegal and cruel treatment of farm animals. It’s alarming that a… Read More

A video released by investigators of Animal Equality, an activits group for animal rights, exposed the horrors of a slaughterhouse in China wherein an estimated 30,000 canines are killed everyday for meat trade. The video, which was recorded surreptitiously, showed dogs being clubbed and drained off their blood while still in an conscious state. The shocking images released by the group exposed… Read More

Hens tightly crammed in tiny cages. Live birds housed with mummified carcasses, birds trapped in wire and automatic feeders, a “blanket” of dead flies on the floor, a barn so dark workers needed headlamps and ammonia so potent workers need masks. Those are the conditions an undercover Investigator working for the Humane Society of the United States found at a Krieder Farms, a large dairy and hen… Read More

On one covert video, farm workers illegally burn the ankles of Tennessee walking horses with chemicals. Another captures workers in Wyoming punching and kicking pigs and flinging piglets into the air. And at one of the country’s largest egg suppliers, a video shows hens caged alongside rotting bird corpses, while workers burn and snap off the beaks of young… Read More

If nothing else, the European horsemeat scandal graphically demonstrates the byzantine complexities of the supply lines used by the global food industry to get products to consumers. Besides raising questions about criminal fraud and food safety, the scandal lifts the veil on an often ugly trade where animals, destined as human food, are abused. Read More

A Raeford man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of animal cruelty that stemmed from a December 2011 raid at a Hoke County Butterball turkey… Read More

“This film is appalling. It cannot be ignored. The eyes see what they see, and this cannot be ignored, said High Court of Justice judges Miriam Naori, Noam Sohlberg, and Yoram Danziger during the hearing into the investigative report, broadcast on Channel 2′s “Kolbotek”, of conditions at the abattoir of Tnuva Food Industries Ltd. meat subsidiary Adom Adom… Read More

Striving to protect the living conditions of hens, animals lovers have sued federal agencies, demanding the government take action to revise labeling requirements for egg cartons. A lawsuit filed in a California federal court contends labels are misleading because they mischaracterize the treatment animals are receiving. Plaintiffs include Compassion over Killing and Animal Legal Defense Fund,… Read More

We all see them. The forsaken carcasses of animals who wanted to cross the road but ended up getting steamrolled by passing traffic. Roadkill is yet another consequence of humanity’s encroachment on the natural world, and it’s even more common in areas where there’s more wildlife than… Read More