Speaking of Animals
Every October at Hale’s 5-H Ranch and Drive Thru Animal Park [perhaps since renamed the 5-H Animal Auction in Jackson, MO] just north of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the Hale family
Agribusiness attempts to respond to animal rights movement
An important meeting of animal rights advocates and animal agribusiness people was held September 10, 1981, in Des Moines, Iowa. Arranged by the Livestock Conservation Institute ostensibly “to define the
The 1981 American Pork Congress: Pushing Pig Flesh
Kansas City, Missouri: city of fur traffic, cattle drives, stockyards, slaughterhouses, and steakhouses, a metropolis built from the backs, blood, and bones of animals—not exactly Miami Beach for an animal
Animal Welfare / Rights / Liberation: What’s the Difference?
Like a great ship at sea, the animal protection movement is going through another change in the weather. Strong, favorably directed gusts of new ideas are kicking up controversies, problems,
New technologies make factory farming more palatable; that’s not good enough (Forbes)
Innovation and technology are doing big things for animal welfare and the health of the planet. Meatless burgers from companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are now mainstream in
Factory Farm Moratorium Oregon (Animal Legal Defense Fund)
Oregon is in the midst of a factory farming crisis. These facilities, where thousands of animals are confined in cramped and filthy conditions, are harming animals and polluting the state’s
‘Relearning meat as a corpse’: vegan author Amber Husain on the politics of loving animals and eating them (Guardian)
When Amber Husain was 26, she was preparing a piece of chicken for a friend to eat and was overcome by an unfamiliar feeling. A lifelong meat-eater, suddenly she was
New research shows animal agriculture is making UTIs worse; factory farms could make them untreatable (Food Tank)
There are a lot of food and agriculture issues that don’t get the attention they deserve. For example, a study in the journal One Health examines the link between urinary
Factory farming is fueling a ‘silent pandemic’; here’s what we can do about it (Euro News)
Antimicrobial resistance could cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050. Here’s what can be done about it. As the world recovers from COVID-19, and bird flu decimates wild and
One million human deaths linked to factory farming, set to double by 2050 (PR NewsWire)
The excessive use of antibiotics in factory farming is causing the premature deaths of nearly one million people and $400 billion in global economic losses each year, according to a
Jim Mason
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