Following its February declaration to help its suppliers phase out pork gestation crates, McDonald's announced late last month a finite plan to elimin...
AP | Posted 05.29.2012
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Senate plans to vote on legislation that would ban the use of crates to confine calves raised for veal. ...
Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2012
By showing up at the Paul R. Knapp "Animal Learning Center," President Obama and his staff show that they are out of touch with the needs of rural Iowans and likely to continue to plow down their unsustainable path of supporting the industrial agribusiness lobby.
Posted 05.15.2012
Denny's is the latest chain to announce it aims to stop the use of gestation crates for its pork products, saying it will work with its suppliers to e...
Posted 05.07.2012
The national supermarket chain Safeway has announced that it is working to formulate a plan to sell pork only from suppliers that do not use gestation...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 04.26.2012
According to its new policy, BK will only do business with pork suppliers that have detailed plans to end their use of gestation crates.
AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 04.25.2012
In a boost to animal welfare activists looking to get livestock out of cramped cages, Burger King will be the first major U.S. fast-food chain to give...
Ryan Huling | Posted 04.05.2012
Starting this fall, peta2 -- the student division of PETA -- will be launching peta2's Glass Walls Exhibit: 3D, the world's first traveling 3D factory...
AP | SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 05.23.2012
PORTLAND, Ore. — Fast-food chain Wendy's Co. is trying to be more humane to the chickens and pigs it uses in its food. The company's animal wel...
AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 03.22.2012
MINNEAPOLIS -- As pork producers build new barns and retrofit old ones to give hogs more space, they say consumers opposed to keeping pregnant sows in...
AP | By DAVID PITT | Posted 02.14.2012
DES MOINES, Iowa -- McDonald's Corp. said Monday it will require its U.S. pork suppliers to provide plans by May to phase out crates that tightly conf...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 04.14.2012
It's the biggest and perhaps best-known restaurant chain in the world. And today, in a joint statement with The Humane Society of the United States, i...
Posted 02.04.2012
Riding the coattails of Smithfield Food's announcement to stop using gestation crates by 2017, Hormel, the makers of SPAM, have followed suit. Hormel ...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 04.02.2012
Living inside a cage barely larger than your body isn't humane and it is not right. Yet this is precisely how the majority of pigs used for breeding by the U.S. pork industry are kept.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 02.01.2012
Legal action is underway following an undercover investigation by The Humane Society of the United States that has alleged inhumane treatment at a pig...
Gene Baur | Posted 05.25.2011
The AVMA's recent decision to update the veterinary oath is a positive step and it's a reflection of a more humane attitude that is emerging within the veterinary profession.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Getting rid of gestation crates is the most important reform the pork industry could implement at this time.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
The general answer for agriculture is that it cannot stand in place. It also cannot hope to gain the trust of consumers when it defends outright cruelty and abuse that the law should forbid.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
In an agreement forged Wednesday, we were able to come to an agreement where all three parties have committed to recommend the enactment of a series of eight landmark reforms on animal welfare.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
I just stepped away from a press conference in the Cabinet Room of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland where he, Ohio Farm Bureau official Jack Fisher and I announced a historic agreement on animal welfare in the state.
Posted 06.01.2012