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 […]
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business
by Christopher Leonard Simon & Schuster (1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020), 2014. 370 pages; hardcover, paperback, and Kindle editions available. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The meat hook on the cover of The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business is misleading. Relatively little of The Meat Racket is in […]
The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals
by James McWilliams St. Martin’s Press (175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010), 2015. 278 pages, hardcover, paperback, or Kindle. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton In The Modern Savage, Texas State University history professor James McWilliams’ sixth successful book since 2005, McWilliams returns to some of the themes he explored in his first book, A Revolution […]
H5N2 avian flu goes pandemic in U.S. & Canada
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 […]
Factory farmer Austin “Jack” DeCoster sentenced to prison––but will he really do time?
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 […]
High pathogenic avian flu hits U.S. through backyard flocks
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 […]
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, […]
Pilgrim’s Pride & Case Farms have “worst chicken plants for animal cruelty,” say Animal Welfare Institute & Farm Sanctuary
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 […]
World’s largest mayonnaise maker to seek end to culling male chicks
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 […]
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 […]
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