Cockfighting & murder occur together worldwide FORT WORTH, Texas––Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Deanna Boyd mentioned almost as an afterthought the murderous history of Robert Eugene Coleman, 56, one of three alleged cockfighters arrested on February 28, 2016: “Tarrant County court records show Coleman had previously been sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1998 […]
Cockfighters in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Pedro Martinez & Juan Marichal were videotaped releasing gamecocks at championship match Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in July 2015, three-time Cy Young Award-winning former pitcher Pedro Martinez has apparently not been asked much lately about his past involvement in cockfighting. Neither has Juan Marichal, the fellow former pitcher and native of the Dominican […]
Queen honors British Hen Welfare Trust founder Jane Howorth
12th animal advocate awarded MBE since 1998 LONDON, U.K.–– British Hen Welfare Trust founder Jane Howorth, 55, of South Molton, Devon, on January 1, 2016 became at least the 12th prominent animal advocate to be admitted to the Order of the British Empire since 1998. Membership in the Order of the British Empire is presented […]
Just Mayo may just keep spreading, says FDA
Eggless product had been sandwiched between regulations protecting Hellman’s & Best Foods The Just Mayo mayonnaise substitute may just keep spreading in sales and popularity with people who slather things on their bread and buns, now that even the U.S. Food & Drug Administration understands that the makers of the eggless vegan product are not […]
Horsewoman & horseman of the food Apocalypse
Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming & the Truth About Our Food by Sonia Faruqi Pegasus Books (80 Broad Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10004; www.pegasusbooks.com); 390 pages, hardcover. $27.95. Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery, CEO, Compassion In World Farming, with Isabel Oakeshott, political editor, […]
Failed livestock gift schemes leave developing world animal charities to clean up their messes
Culprits not easily identified (See also How plastic reindeer can feed the world.) ALBERTON, South Africa; KOCHI, India––Animal charities in the developing world often have first-hand experience with the failures of livestock gift schemes meant by well-meaning western donors to relieve hunger and poverty. But developing world animal charities tend to […]
Why did the Animal Legal Defense Fund go undercover?
Were Tyson poultry-slaughtering line speeds really the focal issue? COTATI, California––The “who, what, where, when” and “how” of an Animal Legal Defense Fund undercover video exposé of alleged animal and employee abuse at a Tyson Foods chicken slaughterhouse in Carthage, Texas were all identified in the September 14, 2015 ALDF media release announcing it. “Why,” […]
Livestock gases kill more than 16,000 Americans per year, says Planck Institute study
“Meat is Murder” MUNCHEN, Germany––Thirty years after the British rock band The Smiths’ third album popularized the phrase “Meat is Murder,” Max Planck Institute for Chemistry researcher Jos Lelieveld has identified the alleged crime as a multiple homicide. In addition to killing about 1.7 billion cattle, a billion pigs, 24 billion chickens, and two billion […]
McDonald’s to phase out using eggs from caged hens
Phase-out to be completed 30 years after McDonald’s accepted statement of humane principles OAK BROOK, Illinois––The McDonald’s restaurant chain, buyer of more than two billion eggs per year, 4% of total U.S. egg production, on September 9, 2015 announced that it will phase out use of eggs from caged hens over the next 10 […]
Will animal industries throw rotten eggs next?
Hampton Creek & Chipotle scare agribiz Not all that long ago bigtime animal agribusiness and the fast food meat industry clamored for laws against so-called “food disparagement,” to try to silence influential critics. Now bigtime agribusiness and allies of the fast food meat industry are doing the disparaging, using the “check-off” funds created by Congress […]
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