The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has, since last Sept. 2, been considering a 14-page petition from Animal Partisan requesting that it issue a notice to convey that:
1) State government officials are not categorically preempted from enforcing state anti-cruelty laws by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Humane
Continue Reading A comment is longer than the petition for animal cruelty investigations
An organization for all prosecutors, including appointed and elected and their deputies and assistants, supports the pending Animal Partisan petition. The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) is a private non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.
The petition requests that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issue a notice to
Continue Reading State anti-cruelty enforcement doesn’t need to be bound by federal authority, prosecutors say
A petition filed last year with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is among the first to generate a comment in 2024.
Animal Partisan, one of the nation’s many animal activist organizations, authored the petition.
Petition 23-07, requests that FSIS issue a notice to convey that: 1) State government
Continue Reading Animal activists claim state officials are not exempt from enforcing anti-cruelty laws
In an ironic twist, Colorado animal activist Ellen Kessler is charged with 13 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. A court summons orders Kessler, 72, to appear on May 23 to face the animal cruelty charges.
Kessler was a member of the Colorado Board of Veterinary Medicine until she resigned earlier
Continue Reading 13 counts of animal cruelty filed against Colorado ‘animal activist’
California in 2020 is scheduled to begin implementing more stringent animal confinement standards for in-state and out-of-state producers who sell certain animal products the state.
The new law was overwhelmingly approved in 2018 by California voters as Proposition 12. It covers breeding pigs, veal calves, and egg-laying hens kept on
Continue Reading California animal confinement law will touch sales from out-of-state
A video that appears to show pigs being abused at an Oklahoma hog farm has prompted investigations by its owners and the Hormel Food Co., which it supplies. Hormel, makers of Spam, bacon, chili and other products, is looking into the Oklahoma facility, which is owned by The Maschhoffs LLC,
Continue Reading Alleged pig abuse at The Maschhoffs shown in activists’ video
Marijuana is a hot topic among state ballot measures for 2016 and its highly likely after the votes are counted a fourth of the U.S. population will reside in states permitting recreational use of cannabis.
Among the 163 total measures that qualified for spots on ballots across 35 states this
Continue Reading Marijuana is smokin’ hot on ballots; food safety not so much
Animal activists from Los Angles-based Mercy for Animals are taking credit this week for the conviction of Danny Miranda on three counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty, but it might be awhile before they or others return to North Carolina to mount another undercover investigation. 
That’s because on Jan. 1, a
Continue Reading Animal Cruelty Conviction in North Carolina Might Be The Last for Awhile
For the third time since July, food industry giant Tyson Foods Inc. has been the target of an undercover animal cruelty investigation by Los Angeles-based Mercy for Animals. 
This time, the animal rights group has signed affidavits against Tyson Foods and six of its employees, hoping it can get misdemeanor
Continue Reading Animal Rights Group Files Criminal Misdemeanor Affidavits Against Tyson and Six Employees
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 videotape includes an interview with the undercover investigator, filmed in shadow to protect her identity.
Continue Reading Undercover Investigation Alleges Abuse of Chickens, Workers at Tyson Slaughter Plant in Texas
