David Kirby’s new book, Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig,...
ANIMAL FACTORY (St. Martin’s Press; March 2, 2010) is a dramatic exposé of factory farms and the devastating impact they have on human health, the environment, and the economy by New York Times...
View ArticleThe Gates Foundation Invests Millions In Monsanto
Advocates of sustainable agriculture are shocked by the recent discovery of significant financial connection between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and agribusiness titan Monsanto. In August, a...
View Article‘Animal Lovers’ in Meat Lobby Fight Laws to Protect Farm Animals from Worst...
The National Meat Association is considered "the voice" of the factory farming industry across the country. "Listen to factory farmers defend themselves and you would think they see the animals they...
View ArticleWhose Food Is It Anyway? Challenging the ‘Secret’ Farm Bill Negotiations
There is something quite striking in comparing the Occupy Wall Street movement and the factory farming industry: both rally for the 99%! For Occupy, the 99% are of course the disenfranchised. For...
View ArticleNew Undercover Investigation of 5th Largest Egg Producer Hits Major Media...
The new MFA investigation, McDonald's Cruelty: The Rotten Truth About Egg McMuffins, contains hidden-camera footage, taken at Sparboe Egg Farm facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado, revealing...
View Article‘Salmonella Jack’ DeCoster, Infamous Poultry Factory Farm Mogul Steps Down in...
Jack DeCoster, now 77, has a reputation in agribusiness as a ruthless businessman who built one of the nation's largest egg production operations from 200 hens he inherited from his father, even as he...
View ArticleAt Chipotle Mexican Grill, Animals and Vegetables Cost the Same
A vegetarian burrito and a chicken burrito at Chipotle both have the same cost because we live in an age where the food industry has so marginalized our view of animals as mere commodities that we...
View ArticleAflatoxin in Milk, Fast Food Foie Gras Burgers and Asia’s Western Food Craze...
In the movie Forks Over Knives, the decline of the health of modern day Asians is sharply contrasted with the healthier eating traditions of their recent past. Interviews with young Chinese reveal that...
View ArticleConsumption of Animal Products Declining in US Yet Surging Globally
"According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), per capita milk consumption in developing countries almost doubled between 1980 and 2005, while meat consumption more than tripled, and...
View ArticleAnimal Science, Public Universities and the Business of Animal Exploitation
In Melody Petersen's new piece in The Chronicle Review entitled, As Beef Cattle Become Behemoths, Who Are Animal Scientists Serving?, Petersen questions the influence of Big Pharma working against the...
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Stop (Saying) Factory Farming
Advocates fighting for farmed animals should be proud. We’ve come a long way in educating the public about the plight of farmed animals. However, “Factory Farming” has come to imply that only the...
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