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H5N2 avian flu goes pandemic in U.S. & Canada

April 23, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

3.8 million hens killed in Iowa HARRIS, Iowa––Workers at Sunrise Farms near Harris in Osceola County, northeastern Iowa, on April 22, 2015 scrambled to kill 3.8 million laying hens to try to quell a fast-spreading pandemic of the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza that started in British Columbia, Canada, in December 2014. The National Veterinary […]

Filed Under: Birds, Canada, Chickens, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, The Americas, Turkeys, Wildlife Tagged With: avian flu, H5N1, H5N2, Merritt Clifton, Sunrise Farms

Factory farmer Austin “Jack” DeCoster sentenced to prison––but will he really do time?

April 14, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Three months & fines SIOUX CITY, Iowa––U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett on April 13, 2015 sentenced egg and pork barons Austin “Jack” DeCoster, 81, of Turner, Maine, and his son Peter DeCoster, 51, of Clarion, Iowa, to serve three months each in prison and pay fines of $100,000 each for selling salmonella-contaminated eggs from their […]

Filed Under: Chickens, China, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Middle Right, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry Tagged With: Austin DeCoster, Peter DeCoster, Quality Egg

High pathogenic avian flu hits U.S. through backyard flocks

February 19, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Outbreaks throughout the Northwest BELLINGHAM, Washington––Backyard poultry have become an incubator for high pathogenic strains of avian influenza throughout the Pacific Northwest, with recent outbreaks occurring from the Fraser Valley of British Columbia to northern California, and as far east as Idaho. The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Birds, Canada, Chickens, China, Ducks & geese, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, The Americas, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: avian flu, H5N1, H5N2, H5N8, HPAI, Merritt Clifton

Agribusiness plays the bull fiddle while animals burn

January 22, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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, […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, Turkeys, Welfare Tagged With: barn fires, Merritt Clifton, NASAAEP, NFPA, Rebecca Gimenez

Pilgrim’s Pride & Case Farms have “worst chicken plants for animal cruelty,” say Animal Welfare Institute & Farm Sanctuary

November 22, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Canton, Ohio plant is worst of all WASHINGTON D.C.––Pilgrim’s Pride Inc., of Greeley, Colorado, operates three of the nine “worst chicken plants for animal cruelty,” according to a review of USDA records by Animal Welfare Institute farm animal programs manager Dena Jones and Farm Sanctuary director of policy Bruce Friedrich, but the worst of all […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Feature Home Middle Right, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Case Farms, Farm Sanctuary, Pilgrm's Pride

World’s largest mayonnaise maker to seek end to culling male chicks

September 3, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

            LONDON, ROTTERDAM, WASHINGTON D.C.––Unilever, the world’s largest maker of egg-based mayonnaise, on September 2, 2014 announced that it will lead a global initiative to end the culling of newly hatched male chicks. “We are aware of the concerns raised about [how] breeders of egg-laying hens eliminate male chicks,” Unilever posted to the corporate animal […]

Filed Under: Ag-gag laws, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Compassion In World Farming, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Unilever

Cage-free egg farm fire kills 65,000 hens, revives attention to lack of sprinklers in barns

August 1, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

            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 […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Welfare Tagged With: Egg Innovations, Humane Farm Animal Care, National Fire Protection Association

Proposed federal hen housing standards deal is dead

March 14, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Eggs, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Welfare Tagged With: HSUS, Merritt Clifton, United Egg Producers

Fire safety standards sought for barns

March 10, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

National Fire Protection Association proposes to require sprinkler systems in farm animal housing                 QUINCY,  Massachusetts––A January 31,  2014 fire that killed 300,000 egg-laying hens at the S&R Egg Farm in La Grange,  Wisconsin has reignited notice of a National Fire Protection Association proposal to require sprinkler systems […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Eggs, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry Tagged With: fire, hens, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, United Poultry Concerns

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