Program Term Archive
Farmed Animals
Cruelty to Calves
Farmed AnimalsVermont-based Bushway Packing Inc. has been suspended from slaughtering days-old male dairy calves for veal. These animals are so young they are unable to stand on their own. Investigative video...
Farm Animal: Friend or Foe
Farmed AnimalsThough seven states have passed legislation to phase out common industry practices that confine farm animals in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down,...
Stunning and Slaughter of Poultry: Evolving Consensus
Farmed AnimalsPoultry do not have muscular diaphragms. Consequently when birds are hung upside down for shackling purposes, abdominal organs compress their hearts. Additionally, compression of leg bones by metal shackles is...
Poison-Free Poultry
Farmed AnimalsAWI supports Representative Steve Israel’s Poison-Free Poultry Act of 2009, H.R. 3624, introduced September 22, 2009. H.R. 3624 bans roxarsone, an arsenic compound used as a growth-promoting additive to poultry...
Ferocious on the Field, Compassionate on the Pasture
Farmed AnimalsNFL Football Star Will Witherspoon’s Biggest Win is the AWA Seal Football is America's toughest major professional sport. Its players are renowned for their size, strength, agility and laser-like focus—as...
Humane Slaughter Laws: Enforcement Up, But Still Insufficient
Farmed AnimalsA new report, Humane Slaughter Update: Comparing State and Federal Enforcement of Humane Slaughter Laws, has just been published by the Animal Welfare Institute. According to the report, nearly three years after...
Will Genetically Engineered Salmon Sink or Swim?
Farmed Animals, Marine WildlifeIn a chilly hotel ballroom in the Washington, DC suburbs this September, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) heard from the public on the question of whether a farm-raised Atlantic salmon...
CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
Farmed AnimalsA 2010 survey funded by the beef industry found that 64 percent of American consumers are familiar with the term “factory farming.” The Foundation for Deep Ecology and Watershed Media...
USDA Urged to Toughen Penalties for Humane Slaughter Violations
Press ReleaseOctober 1, 2010Farmed AnimalsA new report by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI)—Humane Slaughter Update: Comparing State and Federal Enforcement of Humane Slaughter Laws— indicates that, more than two years after the shocking depiction of inhumane...
Dark Meat: The Shady Business of Industrial Chicken
Farmed AnimalsCarole Morison was not born into farming. She married into it, joining her husband Frank on his third-generation farm in Pocomoke City, Maryland. In the mid-1980s, she and Frank began...