Ads at your local supermarket probably go farther on behalf of farmed animals by Irene Muschel I just opened my computer and found myself looking at a startling American SPCA fund-raising email that encourages people to support the breeding, raising, and slaughter of animals destined for human consumption. The email, captioned “Take a Bite Out […]
Mountain goat massacre begins in Grand Tetons
Shaky science may doom mountain goats in their own habitat JACKSON, Wyoming––The northern and western slopes of the Cathedral Mountains in Grand Teton National Park were on January 5, 2020 closed to the public to allow air gunners flown by Baker Aircraft of Baker City, Oregon, to massacre as many as 100 mountain goats […]
Meat-heavy diet must go the way of Neanderthals, German economists warn
Bigger people will do better in a smaller world on grains & veggies GOETTINGEN, Germany––Better-fed people get bigger. This trend has been evident in paleontology since our omnivorous but mostly plant-eating Cro-Magnon ancestors circa 40,000 years ago gradually reduced our much older, shorter, and mostly carnivorous Neanderthal cousins to a handful of recessive genetic traits […]
Brother Wolf: “Warehousing is not working,” says director of no-kill experiment
“Keeping aggressive animals isn’t the solution for lifesaving” ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––“We are warehousing aggressive animals at Brother Wolf when we know this isn’t the solution for lifesaving,” executive director Leah Craig Fieser acknowledged in “Warehousing is not working,” a December 5, 2019 social media statement inspiring heated debate nationwide. “We inherited this way of operating,” Fieser said, […]
Livestock shipment to Middle East goes sideways; to Hawaii, goes backward
Drowned sheep & asphixiated cattle result from opposite approaches to maximizing profit MILILANI, Hawaii––Compared to the drowning deaths of more than 14,350 sheep on November 24, 2019 aboard the capsized Queen Hind in the port of Midia, Romania, the deaths of 21 Angus heifers aboard a Young Brothers barge en route from Honolulu to Kauai, […]
Vegan Man hopes Florida jury will have it his way in case against Burger King
Can expect to be grilled in cross-examination MIAMI, Florida––Vegan Man on November 18, 2019 served notice on the Miami-based Burger King fast food chain in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that he hopes to meet twelve Florida men––and Florida women––in a jury box soon, with a judge presiding. Seeking class […]
Miyoko to dairy farmers: “Don’t have a cow, man!”
“Nuts to you each morning!” DALLAS, Texas; SONOMA, California––Almost simultaneously in mid-November 2019, Dean Foods declared bankruptcy, leaving 12,000 dairy farmers across the U.S. potentially up Manure Creek without a butter churn, and Miyoko’s Creamery, one of the fastest-growing makers of nut-based alternatives to cheese and butter, announced that in early 2020 it will […]
Will African swine fever make China vegan?
Whatever happens, most of the world will eat less pork SYDNEY, Australia; HONG KONG––Will African swine fever, a viral disease now projected to kill at least half the pigs in China and a quarter of all the pigs in the world, accelerate the trend toward vegan eating? Or speed the transition toward factory farming? Or […]
USDA Slaughterhouse Deregulation: Pigs in Peril
Guest column by Gail A. Eisnitz In December 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will implement its “modernization” plan for the slaughter of pigs by turning over key inspection duties to the very industry it regulates. While current regulations allow slaughterhouses to kill a staggering 1,106 pigs per hour – or one pig every three […]
Cruelty charges filed against Aussie live sheep shippers––a first!
Shipping company already lost live export license PERTH, Australia––Cruelty charges were on July 31, 2019 filed against two former directors of the live animal shipping company Emanuel Exports over the August 2017 deaths of more than 2,400 sheep from heat stress aboard the Awassi Express. The sheep were in transit to slaughter in […]
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