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Farm Sanctuary Wary about Tom Vilsack for USDA

Critter News

I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry. He has a mixed record on policies affecting industrialized agriculture.

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Your Tax Dollars at Work Building Iraqi Feedlots

Critter News

A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants. Tags: feedlots economic development iraq factory farm agribusiness. From our "good friends" at Agrilife News. Agency for International Development, and U.S.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.

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