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African swine fever’s lesson: Big animal ag is fragile and biohazard suits are not unusual

By Leah Garcés on September 23, 2019
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Editor’s note: This column is published here with the permission of the author, Leah Garcés. 

Over the past few months, news reports of China’s African swine fever problem, which is decimating the country’s…
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Is there a government conspiracy against Hampton Creek?

By Leah Garcés on September 16, 2016

Death threats. Paying off journalists. Threatening letters. Are these tactics used by Don Corleone in “The Godfather”? Or is it our own government’s efforts, perhaps with agribusiness lobby interests pushing them along, confronting what they…
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Poultry industry sustainability workshop excludes everyone who matters to sustainability

By Leah Garcés on May 24, 2016

This week, the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, the National Chicken Council, and the National Turkey Federation, will host a U.S. Poultry Industry Sustainability Workshop on May 24-25 in Atlanta. Invited attendees included key poultry…

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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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Chicken Industry Acts More Like Ostriches

By Leah Garcés on January 27, 2015

Last month, something unprecedented happened that rocked the chicken industry’s world. Perdue contract farmer Craig Watts decided he’d had enough. Together with my organization, Compassion in World Farming, he released a video that gave the…
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Consumer Marketing Win: Ending ‘Humanewashing’

By Leah Garcés on October 27, 2014

Earlier this year, Cassandra White of Clarkston, GA, gathered more than 165,000 signatures for a Change.org petition asking Kroger to stop misleading customers. Kroger’s Simple Truth Natural Chicken bore the words “raised in a humane…
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Is Perdue’s ‘Eat Like Your Ancestors’ Campaign Calling for Chicken Industry Reform?

By Leah Garcés on March 6, 2014

“Eat like your ancestors.” The phrase brings about feelings of nostalgia for all that is good, simple and natural about food. Perdue’s Harvestland campaign slogan conjures up an image of farming ways of the past.
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