Program Term Archive
Farmed Animals
Cultivated Chicken
Farmed AnimalsIn June, two companies—Upside Foods and Good Meat—were issued groundbreaking grants of inspection by the US Department of Agriculture that cleared the way for “cell-cultivated” (a.k.a. lab-grown) chicken to be...
Food Label Guide Updated with New Farmed Animal Welfare Labels
Farmed AnimalsMore and more consumers are seeking to avoid products from “factory farms”—where animals are kept in abysmal conditions. Such consumers often look for animal-raising claims on packaging labels that purport...
USDA Announces Plans to Strengthen Approval of Animal-Raising Claims on Meat Labels
Farmed AnimalsWhen the Biden administration issued an executive order on promoting competition in the American economy in July 2021, AWI responded by urging the US Department of Agriculture to address deceptive...
Victory! High Court Leaves California’s Prop 12 Standing
Farmed AnimalsIn 2018, Proposition 12 passed in California with 63 percent of the vote. It mandated minimum floor space for egg-laying hens, calves raised for veal, and breeding sows and their...
Pork Industry Pals Try to Torpedo Prop 12
Farmed AnimalsIn May, the US Supreme Court upheld California’s ban on certain forms of extreme confinement for farmed animals in California and the in-state sale of eggs and meat from facilities anywhere that...
Missouri Court Quashes Local Oversight of Hog Farms
Farmed AnimalsThe Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a state law prohibiting counties from imposing regulations on industrial hog operations does not violate the Missouri Constitution. The ruling upholds a lower...
Texas Dairy Fire Kills 18,000 Cattle
Farmed AnimalsIn April, a massive fire and explosion occurred on South Fork Dairy in Dimmitt, Texas, tragically killing around 18,000 cows. This is the deadliest fire involving cattle since AWI began...
Treating Salmonella as Adulterant in Poultry
Farmed AnimalsThe US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing, for the first time, to treat Salmonella as an adulterant for purposes of the Poultry Products Inspection Act. Under...
USDA Urged to Address Misleading Label Claims
Farmed AnimalsFour US senators, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), have written to Sandra Eskin, the US Department of Agriculture’s deputy under secretary for food safety, expressing concern about the department’s...
“Downed” Pig Lawsuit Dismissed
Farmed AnimalsIn March, a judge in the US District Court, Western District of New York, dismissed a lawsuit brought by AWI and six other animal advocacy organizations to protect the welfare...