Farm was only three years old DIMMITT, Texas––Investigators are still scrambling to figure out why the South Fork Dairy Farm, eleven miles southeast of Dimmitt, Texas, abruptly exploded at about 7:20 p.m. on April 10, 2023. Operated under registered agent Frank Brand, South Fork Dairy Inc. was only incorporated in 2019. The blast itself and […]
“Cage-free” fire that killed 400,000 hens is subject of $25 million lawsuit
Building barn that burned was praised as “victory” by then-Humane Society of U.S. brass BLOOMFIELD, Nebraska––A February 27, 2020 barn fire that killed 400,000 hens is now the subject of a $25 million lawsuit filed by the Rhode Island-based Factory Mutual Insurance Company against the barn builder, Henning Companies LLC of Johnston, Iowa. ANIMALS 24-7 […]
Marineland of Canada & Mystic Aquarium in hot water over beluga deaths
Two of five “healthy” beluga whales sold by Marineland to Mystic in 2021 have died & a third is reportedly ill MYSTIC, Connecticut; NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario––Two of the longtime most controversial marine mammal exhibition venues in North America are taking heat––again––after the deaths of two out of five beluga whales who were transferred from one […]
Springcliff Farm thoroughbred barn blaze adds shock to AWI exposé
Horse farm fire is horrific; fire toll on poultry & pigs is thousands of times worse MARTINSVILLE, Indiana––A pre-dawn fire ripped through the Springcliff Farm foaling operation in Martinsville, Indiana on January 6, 2022, killing an as yet unknown number of horses. “The call came in around 4:50 a.m. from a neighbor,” White River Township […]
Good days in court for chickens, gamecocks, Wisconsin wolves, & feral hippos
Decisions may mean better days for animals, but use & exploitation industries will fight back ROCHESTER, N.Y.; WASHINGTON D.C.; MADISON, Wisconsin; CINCINNATI, Ohio––A flurry of mid-October 2021 court decisions brought good news for plaintiffs against the poultry slaughter industry, cockfighting in Puerto Rico, wolf hunting in Wisconsin, and hippopotamus culling in Colombia. Probably the most […]
Barn fires begin to be noticed by animal advocates but not yet agribiz
Animal Welfare Institute & Humane Society International make recommendations WASEKA, Minnesota––Twelve thousand pigs, including 9,000 piglets and 3,000 sows, died in a May 16, 2021 fire that razed two barns at the Woodville Pork Farm in Waseca, Minnesota. Nine different rural fire departments sent water tankers, but as the first barn was already fully […]
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 […]