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Alternative model for bird flu containment gets court review

By Dan Flynn on March 31, 2021

“Oh give me land, lots of lands, and the starry skies above. Don’t fence me in…”

The Humane Society of the United States, Mercy for Animals, and Farm Sanctuary are getting the U.S. District Court …
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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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Political impact lingers after two main events in meat industry

By Dan Flynn on July 19, 2018

Political ramifications are coming in from two events in the past week involving the meat industry.

The first event was a July 12 forum sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on issues surrounding…
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Arkansas lawmakers take ‘civil’ approach with new ag-gag law

By Dan Flynn on March 24, 2017

Gov. Asa Hutchinson Thursday signed Arkansas House Bill 1665, adding a civil cause of action to the state’s code that permits individuals to sue over the unauthorized access to non-public areas of commercial property.

Although…
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Alleged pig abuse at The Maschhoffs shown in activists’ video

By News Desk on February 1, 2017

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…
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Animal Cruelty Conviction in North Carolina Might Be The Last for Awhile

By News Desk on January 7, 2016

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…
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Animal Rights Group Files Criminal Misdemeanor Affidavits Against Tyson and Six Employees

By News Desk on October 28, 2015

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. Tyson chickenThis time, the animal rights group has…
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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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Tyson, McDonald’s Cut Ties With TN Chicken Farm After Video Showing Abuse

By News Desk on August 28, 2015

Two major food corporations with well-known brands to protect have cut ties with a Tennessee chicken farm that finds itself the latest target of an animal abuse investigation by Los Angeles-based Mercy for Animals. First…
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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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