by Gene Baur & Gene Stone Rodale Press & Raincoast Books (33 East Minor Street, Emmaus, PA 18098), 2015. 320 pages, hardcover. $29.99. Reviewed by Beth Clifton “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” ––VICTOR HUGO (French novelist) Living the Farm Sanctuary Life […]
California attorney general appeals the verdict that struck down foie gras ban
Kamala Harris fights to maintain foie gras ban LOS ANGELES, SACRAMENTO––California state attorney general Kamala Harris on February 5, 2015 filed notice of intent to appeal to the Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals a January 6, 2015 verdict by U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, of Los Angeles, that overturned the state law prohibiting the sale of […]
Agribusiness plays the bull fiddle while animals burn
Turkeys burn, horses rescued ST. CLOUD, Minnesota––19,000 four-week-old turkeys were killed in a January 19, 2015 barn fire at a Jennie-O complex in Swanville, Minnesota. The fire, of unknown origin, came three weeks after passer-by Wyatt Stueven, 17, was recognized by CBS-Minnesota for helping to rescue four horses from a barn fire in Chatham Township, […]
Whistleblower exposé of livestock research fuels ag-gag debate
“Ag gag” laws are now on the books in seven states, but cases have been prosecuted only in Utah OMAHA, SALT LAKE CITY, KANSAS CITY, OLYMPIA––Publishing a landmark exposé of the little-known U.S. Meat Animal Research Center on January 20, 2015, Michael Moss of The New York Times indirectly racheted up political pressure both for […]
Why California proposition 2, now in effect, is not protecting farmed animals
by Brad Miller Founder, Humane Farming Association California Proposition 2, passed by voters who hoped to protect farmed animals in November 2008, officially goes into non-effect this week. The Humane Society of the U.S. promised donors and the public that Proposition 2 would outlaw cages for laying hens and would result in a “cage-free” California. […]
Are skinned and dismembered rabbits “Whole Foods”?
Whole Foods Market sells dead rabbits RICHMOND, California––Are skinned and dismembered rabbits “whole foods”? Whole Foods Market sells them, along with other meat, much to the disgust and outrage of SaveABunny Inc. founder and executive director Marcy Schaaf and House Rabbit Society president Margo DeMello. Schaaf and DeMello organized protests against […]
Cage-free egg farm fire kills 65,000 hens, revives attention to lack of sprinklers in barns
FORT WAYNE, Indiana––A predawn fire on July 28, 2014 killed 65,000 hens at an Egg Innovations barn in Kosciusko County, Indiana, reviving attention to a two-year-old National Fire Protection Association proposal to require sprinkler systems in farm animal housing. “Flames were showing. Probably shooting in the air about 20 feet,” Atwood fire chief Mike […]
Proposed federal hen housing standards deal is dead
United Egg Producers drops pursuit of Egg Products Inspection Act amendments WASHINGTON D.C.––Signing the 2013 Farm Bill into law on February 7, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama also signed the death warrant for the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments, introduced in the House of Representatives as HR-1731 and in the Senate […]