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Kaporos: chicken soup for the soulless?

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UPDATE: Opponents of Kaporos will on September 28,  2017 hold a candlelight vigil in Borough Park,  Brooklyn,  co-hosted by the Animal Cruelty Exposure Fund,  Their Turn,  NYCLASS,  Long Island Orchestrating for Nature,  New York Farm Animal Save,  New York Animal Defenders,  and the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos,  a project of United Poultry Concerns. […]

Monsoon floods threaten animals below the Himalayas

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Devastation along one of the world’s longest yet most remote rivers  GUWAHATI,  ASSAM,  INDIA––Exceptionally heavy monsoon rains pelting the southeast side of the Himalayas,  believed to be symptomatic of global warming,  have for the fifth year in a row triggered deadly landslides and caused the Brahmaputra river and tributaries to overflow their banks. More than […]

Hampton Creek founder Tetrick pledges his “clean meat” will be vegan

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Cloned product will not be grown in serum culture, Tetrick says          SAN FRANCISCO––Hampton Creek Foods founder Josh Tetrick,  amid a mysterious destocking of all 20 Hampton Creek products by Target Corporation,  the largest Hampton Creek customer,  took a meme of unknown origin attacking cell-cultured meat seriously enough to call at 5:02 p.m. on Friday,  […]

Bad eggs Jack & Peter DeCoster ordered to prison after 2-year delay

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U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeal             SIOUX CITY,  Iowa––Two years after convicting egg barons Jack DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster for their roles in causing one of the worst salmonella outbreaks ever to hit the U.S. public,  senior U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett of the Northern District of Iowa has signed […]

Would “healthier” chickens harm the environment?

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By Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns Chicken “Welfare” vs. Environmental Welfare  Would raising chickens more slowly – keeping them alive for seven or eight weeks, say, instead of five or six weeks – be a welfare improvement that would inflict more harm on the environment than the industry already causes? The industry […]

First conviction of animal sacrifice practitioner in 11 years

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But light sentence for perp          LEESBURG,  Virginia––Loudoun County,  Virginia general district Judge Deborah C. Welsh on August 3,  2016 convicted Santeria priestess Mercy Carrion,  43,  on three counts of cruelty to animals,  but suspended her sentence on condition that she take a course in how to properly sacrifice animals from Gro Mambo Danthoula Novanyon […]

Do farmed animal standards mix with gin?

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Agribiz group VP becomes VP for American Humane Association WASHINGTON D.C.––What does it signify that American Humane Association chief marketing officer and vice president of communications Jack Hubbard came to that position in May 2016 after nine years as vice president of the aggressively anti-animal and habitat advocacy public relations firm Richard Berman & Company, […]

Farmed animals & money talks

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U.K. farmed animal welfare laws older & weaker than many voters believe Part III of a five-part series.  See also Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?,  Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan.”,  What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals and Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.) While residents of the […]

Will U.K. leaving E.U. mean leaving animal welfare behind?

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Part I of a five-part series.   See also Part II: Farmed animals & the Brexit “diet plan” and Part III: Farmed animals & money talks.   Part IV:  What Brexit means for “pet passports” & lab animals. Part V:  Back to the Jungle Book:  U.K. wildlife law post-Brexit.          LONDON,  U.K.––Will the June 23,  […]

Perdue Farms agrees to animal welfare concessions after 30-year battle

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Henry Spira posthumously wins long fight with the late Frank Perdue after Perdue son throws in the towel          SALISBURY,  Maryland––Perdue Farms,  a $6 billion-a-year pioneer of factory-style chicken farming and now the fourth largest chicken producer in the U.S.,  on June 27,  2016 announced a four-point program to improve chicken welfare.  The Perdue announcement,  […]