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Farmed Animals
North Carolina Legislature Approves Ag-Gag Law
Farmed AnimalsThe North Carolina legislature really doesn’t care to know about animal abuse on farms. In May, it sent an ag-gag measure (HB 405) to Governor McCrory for his signature, but...
Pig Tales
Farmed AnimalsPig Tales: An Omnivore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat, James Beard Award–winner Barry Estabrook’s investigation into the commercial pork industry, travels over ground familiar to many farm animal welfare advocates. Illustrating...
The Chain
Farmed AnimalsAccording to Hormel Foods, the producers of SPAM, 3.1 cans of the preserved pork product are consumed every second in the United States. If everyone read Ted Genoways’ The Chain: Farm,...
Advisory Committee Urges Sustainable Dietary Guidelines
Farmed AnimalsThe animal agriculture industry is responsible for an estimated 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. A significant portion of environmental degradation from animal agriculture can be attributed to factory...
AWARE Act Seeks to Protect Farm Animals at Federal Research Sites
Farmed AnimalsResponding swiftly to The New York Times exposé of cruel experiments involving farm animals at the US Department of Agriculture’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Nebraska, members of Congress introduced bills...
California Mandates More Space in the Cage for Egg-Laying Hens
Farmed AnimalsApproximately 305 million egg-laying hens live in the United States at any given time. Between 90 and 95 percent of these birds are packed into tiny, barren wire cages that...
Leading Food Service Companies Expand Cage-Free Commitment
Farmed AnimalsCompass Group, Sodexo, and Aramark, three of the largest food service companies, announced a commitment to purchase liquid eggs from cage-free hens for US sales. Compass plans to complete its...
MARC Continues to Feel the Heat
Farmed AnimalsAs reported in AWI Quarterly, winter 2015, USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC), in Clay Center, Nebraska, has come under intense scrutiny after a January 19 article in The New York...
USDA Amending Live Animal Export Regulations, but Is It Enough?
Farmed AnimalsMillions of animals are exported from the United States annually—over 7.5 million animals in January 2015 alone. Most are shipped in aircrafts, but many are transported overseas in ocean vessels....
AWI Sheds Light on Gross Animal Welfare Violations in U.S. Live Animal Exports
Press ReleaseMarch 17, 2015Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) stated that changes are needed to US animal export to address the gross violations of international animal welfare code occurring on shipments of farm animals...