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Global Animal Welfare Meeting Held in Egypt
Farmed AnimalsThe second global conference on Animal Welfare was convened by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) last year in Cairo, Egypt, from October 20 to 22. The conference had...
Noxious Emissions from Animal Waste Exempted
Farmed AnimalsThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempted all agribusiness in December—no matter how industrialized, no matter the animal product produced—from having to declare noxious emissions produced by animal waste. The EPA...
Report Finds Insufficient Gov’t Oversight at Slaughter Plants
Farmed AnimalsIn response to the Hallmark-Westland slaughter plant exposé, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) assessed what had transpired at Hallmark, if it could...
Dirt: The Erosion Of Civilizations
Farmed AnimalsPainstakingly, Montgomery, a geomorphologist and professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, leads us on a verbal journey spanning millennia and the globe to give us...
All In the Pleasant Open Air: Animal Welfare Approved Farmers Spearhead Return to Raising Cattle on Grass
Farmed AnimalsIn the mid-20th century, the United States underwent an agricultural revolution that went largely unnoticed by the general public when the ability of science to industrialize farming overtook the knowledge and...
Smithfield Stalls
Farmed AnimalsImprisoning more than one million breeding sows in the US, gestation crates used by Smithfield Foods are severe forms of punishment designed with one goal in mind: increased profit. In...
Which Came First, The Gentle Hen or The Cage?
Farmed AnimalsEgg-laying hens in confinement bear some of the worst abuses the agricultural industry offers. To the detriment of their own well-being, hens are bred for increasing egg production. In an...
Combating Antibiotic Overload
Farmed AnimalsConfinement production of livestock in the United States would be virtually impossible without antibiotics. The practice of feeding farm animals low-doses of antibiotics in food and water originated in the...
Bodyguard of Lies
Farmed AnimalsIt is not only war that is, in Churchill’s words, “accompanied by a bodyguard of lies.” We live in a time when lies, perhaps more than ever before, are day-to-day...
Illinois Court to Decide Fate of Mega Dairy
Farmed AnimalsThe nonprofit group Helping Others Maintain Environmental Standards (HOMES) of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, achieved yet another victory against a massive, industrial-scale dairy operation. Investor and California millionaire A.J. Bos...