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Report Suggests Taking a Second Look at Safety of Animal Drugs

By News Desk on October 19, 2015

There might be more animal drugs to worry about than just antibiotics. That’s according to a report released by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) this past week. “America’s Secret Animal Drug Problem” is an…
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Undercover Investigation Alleges Abuse of Chickens, Workers at Tyson Slaughter Plant in Texas

By Cathy Siegner on September 16, 2015

The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) has released undercover video footage from inside a Tyson Foods Inc. slaughter plant in Carthage, Texas, which the group asserts documents a system exploiting both workers and animals. The…
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Senators Still Want Answers From Antibiotic Resistance Task Force

By Lydia Zuraw on August 19, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-white-house-image18128229Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are still waiting for answers to animal antibiotics questions posed eight months ago. The senators originally wrote to the co-chairs of the Interagency Task…
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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Linked to Missouri Slaughter Plant Suspended by FSIS

By News Desk on August 18, 2015

fruitland_406x250Update: Rain Crow Ranch, the Doniphan, MO, cattle operation which owns a nearby beef processing facility recently shut down by the federal government for humane handling violations, is being sued in connection with a 2014 …
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Letter From the Editor: Stop Censorship of Undercover Videos

By Dan Flynn on August 16, 2015

Constitutional rights not used or claimed might not survive from one generation to the next. It’s not good enough to say that because of New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), no prior restraint…
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MN Hog Farm Suspends Workers Before Group Releases Undercover Video

By News Desk on August 12, 2015

When an animal agriculture facility is caught with workers abusing their charges, the usual routine is to wait until the undercover video is made public and then, maybe after a day or two, fire the…
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Perdue’s Big Reveal: ‘We Need Happier Birds’

By Leah Garcés on August 7, 2015

You might not have caught it, but at the end of Stephanie Strom’s article this past weekend in The New York Times, Perdue made a big reveal.

Back in December 2014, Compassion in World Farming

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Factory Farming: The Ignored Elephant in the Room

By Leah Garcés on June 9, 2015

The World Expo, being held in Milan, Italy, from May 1-Oct. 1, 2015, and themed, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” is bringing together 140 countries to unravel one of the world’s greatest challenges.…
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North Carolina’s Civil ‘Ag-Gag’ Law Getting National Attention

By Dan Flynn on June 9, 2015

An animal agriculture leader from a Western state says it’s hard not to be paying attention to North Carolina’s new Property Protection Act that was passed last week over GOP Governor Pat McCrory’s veto. That’s…
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Letter From the Editor: Better a Civil Action

By Dan Flynn on May 24, 2015

It was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who said that “a state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of…
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