Animal agribiz is about dead meat; cellular ag isn’t CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts––Rigor mortis is the biggest technical problem the meat industry has, John R. White Company meat scientist Benjy Mikel, Ph.D., of Birmingham, Alabama, emphasized on July 20, 2018 to the New Harvest 2018 conference on cellular agriculture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media […]
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 […]
Hurricane Maria: St. Croix Animal Welfare Center welds the door shut
Whatever didn’t blow away was stolen ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands––“It is with a very heavy heart that we were forced to weld the door to our clinic closed today,” the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center posted to Facebook on September 28, 2017. Even before Hurricane Maria crushed the U.S., Dutch, and British Virgin Islands, […]
Bad eggs Jack & Peter DeCoster ordered to prison after 2-year delay
U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeal SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Two years after convicting egg barons Jack DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster for their roles in causing one of the worst salmonella outbreaks ever to hit the U.S. public, senior U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett of the Northern District of Iowa has signed […]
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 […]
How phantoms spooked agribusiness into failed Krajnc case against watering pigs
Slaughter industry remains haunted by ghosts of vegan campaigns past BURLINGTON, Ontario––Winning the May 4, 2017 acquittal of Toronto Pig Save cofounder Anita Krajnc on charges of criminal mischief originating from giving bottled water to pigs through the slats on a livestock truck, defense attorney Gary Grill likened her actions and prosecution to those of […]
Why do we believe Babe & Wilbur live happily ever after?
by Beth Clifton POLK CITY, Florida––Reportedly jailed since August 9, 2016, charged with 138 counts of neglect of animals and three counts of felony cruelty, Darlynn’s Darlins Rescue Ranch cofounders Darlynn Czerner, 65, and Clinton “Butch” Martin, 61, on September 7 lost custody of 122 swine, 43 chickens, seven cats, three dogs, two ducks, a […]
How conservationists nearly drove a rare fox extinct
“Biologic genocide” almost finished Channel Islands’ top predator SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, California––U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Dan Ashe on August 11, 2016 personally visited Channel Island National Park to announce that the Channel Islands fox, native to Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Santa Cruz islands, off the southern California coast, are no longer […]
Do farmed animal standards mix with gin?
Agribiz group VP becomes VP for American Humane Association WASHINGTON D.C.––What does it signify that American Humane Association chief marketing officer and vice president of communications Jack Hubbard came to that position in May 2016 after nine years as vice president of the aggressively anti-animal and habitat advocacy public relations firm Richard Berman & Company, […]
USDA Wildlife Services: protecting livestock, crops, & endangered species, or just cover for subsidized hunting?
Body count tripled in 20 years Can it be that USDA Wildlife Services agents are now killing animals mostly just for the hell of it? Comparing the 2015 body count with that of 1996 certainly raises the question. USDA Wildlife Services purportedly kills only livestock predators, animals who jeopardize crops, and “invasive species.” The latter […]
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