Egg producers would have to triple the number of laying hens kept in so-called cage-free housing to make good on their promise to meet demands for restaurant and retail chains by 2025.
Only 16.8 percent of U.S. laying hens are currently in “cage-free” housing.
Egg producers do not appear to
Continue Reading No big boom yet in egg industry ‘cage-free’ hen housing
In the past five years, policies by the Obama administration and Congress have worsened the problems that animal agriculture poses to public health, the environment and animal welfare, according to a new report by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. The new report, released Tuesday, serves as an
Continue Reading Report: Problems Posed by Animal Agriculture Have Worsened in Recent Years
Many schools, colleges, and restaurants that once enrolled in the so-called “Meatless Monday” campaign no longer participate, according to an audit conducted by the pro-meat Animal Agriculture Alliance based in Arlington, VA. The findings were announced as the “Meatless Monday” movement nears its 10th anniversary and recently enlisted California State
Continue Reading Animal Ag Group Says 'Meatless Monday' Enrollees Often End Up Dropping Out
I would prefer to be contacted simply for “reporting without bias,” but Katie Cooper, the national radio producer actually said she was contacting me because I was about the only “dispassionate” reporter she could find covering the so-called “ag-gag” proposals being considered by 10 or 11 states this legislative
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