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Hen caging & greyhound racing go before voters in 2018 election

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Animal advocates & agribusiness split over California Proposition 12;  Republicans split over Florida Proposition 13             SACRAMENTO, California;  ORLANDO, Florida––The axiom that animal politics cut diagonally across partisan divides could scarcely be better illustrated than by the alignments for and against the two major ballot initiatives on animal issues going before voters on November 6,  […]

Disease linked to cockfighting menaces California poultry industry

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Gamecocks carrying Newcastle disease to domestic flocks killed millions in 1971 and 2003             LOS ANGELES––The billion-dollar-a-year California poultry industry is betting the farm that state and federal authorities can get a two-year series of outbreaks of Newcastle disease under control before it becomes the biggest threat to profits in decades. An outbreak discovered in […]

3.4 million “live inventory” – chickens & turkeys – drowned or starved in North Carolina storm 

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by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns with Afterword by ANIMALS 24-7 A caring person’s reaction to learning that millions of chickens and turkeys and pigs drowned in North Carolina this month is the gut-wrench of sorrow and pity for these helpless souls and outrage at the companies that didn’t see fit to […]

“Clean meat” advocate Shapiro pushes product to stretch hot dogs

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Factory egg farmers meanwhile align behind HSUS-backed Proposition 12             SACRAMENTO,  California––Paul Shapiro,  the former Humane Society of the U.S. farmed animal campaigns manager and vegan advocate who resigned in January 2018 amid sexual harassment allegations,  is now pushing a product meant to stretch hot dogs,  burgers,  and meatballs. A “blend of wheat protein,  mushroom, […]

Live animal markets in New York City: a cut-throat business at best

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Customs change with waves of immigration             NEW YORK CITY,  N.Y.––Escaping the Iranian Revolution with her parents at age 6,  artist Sara Rahbar as an adult has produced an internationally recognized portfolio on themes often involving human and animal suffering. Yet Rahbar found herself wholly unprepared for the misery she met close to hand on […]

Wayne Pacelle & Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom celebrate returns from extinction

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Sagas of alleged giant predators turned animal rights stars             WASHINGTON D.C.––Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,  a saga of supposedly vanished giant predators,  reinvented as animal rights celebrities,  debuted to bad reviews on June 22,  2018,  yet proved to be a box office magnet,  grossing $1.2 billion in its first month. Animal Wellness Action,  a political action […]

“Rigor mortis is our biggest problem,” meat scientist tells cell culturing conference

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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?

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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 […]

HSUS president Wayne Pacelle: more comes out

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New allegations help to put anonymous communication into context             WASHINGTON D.C.––Rescuers of lame ducks in the Washington D.C. region are on high alert after Washington Post national labor issues reporter Danielle Paquette on January 29,  2018 revealed alleged details of workplace misconduct claims made by at least three women against Humane Society of the U.S. president […]

Legalizing California Battery Cages: HSUS & Egg Industry Redefine Proposition 2 in Toxic Ballot Measure

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by Bradley Miller (Bradley Miller founded the Humane Farming Association,  www.hfa.org,  for which he is national director,  in 1985.) It all comes down to one square foot.  After wasting ten years, squandering over $10 million dollars, and subjecting millions of animals to years of preventable cage confinement, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) can […]