Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights & Her Own Survival by Gail Eisnitz Skyhorse Publishing 307 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018 www.skyhorsepublishing.com 250 pages, hardback, 2025. $32.99. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton These days Beth and I hear from Gail Eisnitz mostly as cc. on emails pertaining to investigations of […]
Slaughter workers, animals, & advocates: can there be justice for all?
Not all social justice interests are compatible by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns “It really does something to your mind when you stand there in all that blood, killing so many times, over and over again.” – Virgil Butler, former Tyson chicken slaughterhouse employee If I see or hear the word “meatpacking” one […]
COVID-19: Trump order reopening slaughterhouses was not about food
But preserving profits, “red state” votes, and keeping workers on the job despite risk were of paramount concern SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Risk of a U.S. food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with the April 28, 2020 decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses running. […]
Are feminists right to resist comparison with the females of other species?
by Karen Davis, PhD., president of United Poultry Concerns A woman employed on a chicken “breeder” farm in Maryland wrote a letter once to the local newspaper berating the defenders of chickens for trying to make her lose her job, threatening her ability to support herself and her daughter. For her, “breeder” hens were “mean” birds who […]
Study authors miss own findings about soaring cost of dog attacks
26% jump in dog attacks as percentage of deaths caused by non-venomous animals. STANFORD, California––At least fourteen major news agencies worldwide and even the authors of a newly published study entitled “An Update on Fatalities Due to Venomous and Nonvenomous Animals in the United States (2008–2015)” appear to have overlooked data included in the study […]
Pooped on for profit: pigs, chickens, & people in North Carolina
Governor stood up to pork barrel politics, but Republicans overrode his veto RALEIGH, TROUTMAN, North Carolina––Rejecting pork barrel politics, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on May 5, 2017 vetoed North Carolina House Bill 467, which would have limited the compensation that aggrieved homeowners can win in lawsuits against factory pig farms over stench and […]