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Hope for Hen Welfare

Critter News

A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Please see below for the press release. Any help you can provide in getting the word out would be deeply appreciated.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The exploitation of farm workers reverberates in the treatment of farm animals and degradation of the environment. Deborah Dubow Press Washington, Sept. 9, 2009 The writer is on the staff of the Farm Animal Program, Animal Welfare Institute. Deborah Dubow Press Washington, Sept.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

Below is a press release about the mailing. The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.

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A Self-Interested Reason to Not Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. Second , and most importantly, refuse to support the meat industry’s unsafe practice of adding antibiotics to animal feed by refusing to purchase their products.

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