Two Costco shareholders sue the board of directors for allegedly violating humane laws SEATTLE, Washington––Costco Wholesale Corporation, better known as just Costco, in 2016 introduced a novel strategy to wring profits out of the necks of chickens. Now Legal Impact for Chickens, a recently formed San Francisco-based nonprofit, is pursuing a novel legal strategy to […]
Would “healthier” chickens harm the environment?
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 […]