Action Alerts from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
— Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called Take Action Thursday, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a...
View ArticleMy Own Private Idaho: Pursuing Ag-Gag Secrecy
"My Own Private Idaho." You might know it as a '90s era movie, but its new identity is being forged in the Idaho legislature right now. "My Own Private Idaho" could soon be how factory farm owners...
View ArticleAg-Gag Goes to Court
On March 17, a coalition of animal-rights, civil-liberties, and labor organizations, along with the independent journalist Will Potter, filed a lawsuit in federal district court against Idaho’s...
View ArticlePentagon Is on Active Duty for Animals
The Department of Defense recently announced that it will halt the use of live animals in a variety of medical training programs, beginning January 1. This is a major step forward for the Pentagon,...
View ArticleAnimals in the News
by Gregory McNamee Nature is red in tooth and claw, the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson warned, notwithstanding the fact that, as an old Latin tag has it, humans are wolves upon other humans. We kill each...
View ArticleEating Earth
"They’re eating me out of house and home!" Idioms, as you know, are shorthand codes for more complex ideas. As I read Lisa Kemmerer’s latest offering, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics & Dietary...
View ArticleThe Modern Savage
James McWilliams’ new book, The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals, is an ethical consideration of the reality of animal agriculture. And the reality is cruelty to animals exists on...
View ArticleCorporate Moves Create Tipping Point in Animal Welfare?
In May, Walmart announced that its food suppliers should adhere to greater animal welfare standards. This announcement received wide support from animal rights groups, and the Humane Society of the...
View ArticlePresenting Anna & Maybelle Stewart
As they regain their health, Anna and Maybelle's unique personalities are starting to emerge. The friends, possibly sisters, are closely bonded. The girls take great comfort in each other, just as they...
View ArticleSave a Hog, Eat a Teacher
What happens when you criticize animal agriculture? I’ll tell you.
View ArticleGovernment Pork: May the Farce Be With You
Here are some pretty painful examples of your government at work. Monkeys on a treadmill, sheep in microgravity, and a fight club for shrimp? All of that and more amounts to a smackdown of American...
View ArticleAction Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
Tweet — Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail Legislative Alert, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national,...
View ArticleThe Price of Pork
But the problems don’t stop with pork. North Carolina’s pig problem is compounded by poultry operations. Currently, poultry housed in CAFOs outnumbers state residents by 20 to one, and the state has...
View ArticleAction Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
— Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out a “Take Action Thursday” email alert, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national,...
View ArticleThe USDA Is Standing By While a Global Crisis Looms
A global health crisis fueled by the greed of factory farming conglomerates and their allies in Congress is looming. It’s not climate change or heart disease, but the public health nightmare of...
View ArticleTrump’s Holiday Bonus for Big Ag
A number of anti-animal politicians have been under consideration for cabinet posts in the Trump administration, but the president-elect has selected one of the very worst to lead the Environmental...
View ArticleWhy Not “Drain the Swamp” of Animal Abuse?”
Why doesn't Trump's proposed budget cut factory farming subsidies, funding for lethal predator control, and other giveaways of American tax dollars to coddled special interests?
View ArticleCanadian Activist Acquitted of Criminal Charges for Giving Water to Thirsty...
An Ontario court has acquitted Toronto animal advocate Anita Krajnc of all charges for offering water to overheated pigs on a transport truck bound for slaughter.
View ArticleHIMP: Inherently Cruel for Pigs
The USDA recently announced that it will allow slaughterhouses to radically increase the speed with which pigs are slaughtered while at the same time decreasing government oversight of food safety.
View ArticleIn Cities and on Ranches, Planning is Key to Protect Animals During Disasters
The key issue is that communities need to plan ahead and create partnerships between disaster professionals, agricultural extension agents, veterinary health experts and animal welfare groups.
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