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Retired USDA Inspectors Share Concerns About HIMP Project

By Carey Gillam on November 16, 2015

Joe Ferguson says he just couldn’t take it any longer. The former inspector for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) spent more than 23 years monitoring operations inside pork…
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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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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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Worker Fired, But Undercover Pig Farm Video Not Enough for Criminal Charges

By Dan Flynn on October 30, 2013

A “food fight” over allegations of possible inhumane animal treatment broke out in Minneapolis on Tuesday. On one side is the pig-raising Rosewood Farms at Pipestone, MN, which just happens to be owned by Randy…
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‘Show Me’ State Compromises on Ag-Gag

By Dan Flynn on May 18, 2012

With the clock ticking down to adjournment today, the Missouri Senate pulled a surprise late Thursday by not bringing up the so-called “ag-gag” bill but instead passing an omnibus agriculture law with some changes in…

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Missouri May Be Moving Forward With ‘Ag-Gag’

By Dan Flynn on May 1, 2012

A Missouri Senate committee will hear and likely recommend approval of House Bill 1860, the so-called ag-gag bill the lower chamber already approved on a 124-29 vote.  

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If that happens, HB 1860 will get…

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Iowa Approves Nation’s First ‘Ag-Gag’ Law

By Dan Flynn on March 1, 2012

Four years ago, undercover video recorded workers on forklifts forcing “downer” cows into slaughter at the Hallmark and Westland meat plant in Chino, CA, which at the time was a top supplier to the National…

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More Documented Abuse of Iowa Animals

By Dan Flynn on June 29, 2011

This might not be the best time to release an undercover video of cruelty to Iowa farm animals.

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A bill to outlaw such videos, and punish people who make them, remains alive in the Iowa…

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Texas Sheriff Probes Brutal Treatment of Calves

By Dan Flynn on April 26, 2011

Animal agriculture in the Texas Panhandle may be tested soon on whether it can punish its own when severe abuse is involved.

Castro County Sheriff Salvador Rivera is now investigating E6 Cattle Co. in Hart…

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