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Farmed Animals
Report: USDA fails to protect birds who are neglected, abandoned during transport and at slaughterhouse
Press ReleaseAugust 9, 2018Farmed AnimalsIn a letter sent today to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) urged the agency to protect poultry from mistreatment, citing more than 50 recent...
AWI Outlines Farm Bill Priorities as Congress Begins Deliberations
Press ReleaseAugust 2, 2018Farmed AnimalsThe conference between the US House of Representatives and Senate to work out their differences on the Farm Bill (H.R. 2, Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018), has formally begun with...
Animal Welfare Institute, Other Groups Urge Florida Governor to Reassign Raccoon Drowning Case
Press ReleaseAugust 1, 2018Companion Animals, Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeIn a letter sent Monday to Florida Gov. Rick Scott regarding the Ocala teacher accused of drowning animals in front of his students, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), the Association of Prosecuting...
AWI Statement on Legislative Attempts to Modify Commercial Trucking Requirements
Press StatementJune 19, 2018Farmed AnimalsDuring this session of Congress, numerous measures have been introduced to modify Department of Transportation (DOT) commercial truck driver requirements. The proposed changes include expanding the number of hours truckers...
Hawaii Halts Live Pig Shipments
Farmed AnimalsThe last shipment of live pigs from the US mainland—at least for the foreseeable future—has docked in Hawaii. For decades, pigs have been subjected to an arduous week-long journey by...
Insurer for Butterball Balks at Cleanup Coverage
Farmed AnimalsButterball, a major turkey producer in the United States, is in court over insurance coverage of a $3.5 million cleanup of pollution at a Carthage, Missouri, site. The insurer, Great...
Perdue to End Electric Stunning of Poultry
Farmed AnimalsPerdue Farms has become the first major poultry producer in the United States to commit to adopting a process of stunning with gas, known as controlled atmosphere stunning (CAS), at...
Plaintiffs Prevail Against Pungent Pig Farm
Farmed AnimalsA group of rural North Carolinians prevailed in court this April against Murphy-Brown LLC, a subsidiary of Chinese-owned global food giant Smithfield Foods. The landmark case concerned the stench of...
USDA Proposes Faster Slaughter, Fewer Inspectors
Farmed AnimalsThe US Department of Agriculture recently proposed several changes to the process of slaughtering pigs, including allowing slaughterhouses to operate without any limits on the speed of the line. Pigs...
Rotten Eggs: Iowa Contrives to Keep Hens Caged
Farmed AnimalsIn March, Iowa enacted a law that will require most egg retailers in the state to continue carrying “conventional” eggs from hens raised in densely packed battery cages. Only those stores that...