Critter News
APRIL 28, 2009
The company denies it. Tags: Swine Flu factory farm. According to this AP article, some are blaming Smithfield Foods, which has 8 operations in La Gloria Mexico. You can read all about the horrible things Smithfield Foods has done in the US in this long Rolling Stone article. I can only imagine how things are run in Mexico.
Critter News
APRIL 12, 2009
On March 19, 2009 a company representative emailed Compassion Over Killing: "…I am pleased to let you know the BOCA brand will be eliminating eggs in all of its products by the end of this year. By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 2, 2008
Tags: eggs factory farm agribusiness.
Critter News
APRIL 6, 2009
While the vast majority of this company's products were shrimp, the majority of its revenue was earned from crab sales. Factory farming does not only happen on land. frozen seafoods with sauces, etc.) It happens on the sea too. And it is just as wasteful.
Animal Ethics
JULY 21, 2010
July 13, 2010 To the Editor: Today tens of thousands of American farmers don’t even own the livestock they raise, and the conditions they raise animals in are dictated to them by a handful of extremely powerful companies that are concerned only with the bottom line. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,
Critter News
OCTOBER 19, 2008
These are not farming families, folks, but corporations as powerful and ruthless as anything on Wall Street. Some 200 companies have an average flock size of one million hens in a single location, with the top 60 companies producing 85% of all eggs. Proposed amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code have egg companies there worried.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it.
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