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Safeway Claims Big Change In Its Pork Will Come

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Pig Gestation Crates, Safeway, Mercy for Animals, Humane Society, Safeway Gestation Crates, Hormel-Gestation-Crates, Safeway Pork, Brian Dowling, Gestation Crates, Food News

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...

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Bill in Iowa Threatens Animal Welfare, Human Health, and Civil Liberties (VIDEO)

Ari Solomon | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Animal Cruelty, Mercy for Animals, Animal Welfare, Undercover Investigation, Health, Free Speech, Iowa, Factory Farms, Ag Gag Bill, House File 589, Video, Green News
Ari Solomon

The state with the weakest animal protection laws in the nation has just passed House File 589, a bill that would criminalize undercover investigations of misconduct at factory farms.

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Butterball Turkey Raid Leads To Criminal Charges And Arrests

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Dr. Sarah Jean Mason, Butterball Turkey Raid, Video, Nathan Runkle, Butterball, Mercy for Animals, Mercy for Animals Butterball, Food News

In December, an undercover video from Mercy For Animals showed footage of animal abuse at a Butterball turkey raising facility. The turkeys were kicke...

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Butterball Turkey Factory Raided After Undercover Video Reveals Cruelty

Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Butterball Undercover Video, Animal Cruelty, Video, Mercy for Animals, Undercover Video Animal Cruelty, Butterball Factory Farm, Butterball Turkeys, Turkeys, Butterball Turkey Raid, Butterball, Butterball Animal Cruelty, Food News

County sheriffs in North Carolina raided a Butterball turkey raising facility this morning to investigate claims of animal cruelty, after the animal r...

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Target Follows McDonald's Lead, Drops Egg Supplier

AP | By STEVE KARNOWSKI and DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Sparboe Farms, Target, McDonald's, Target Egg Supplier, Animal Cruelty, Mercy for Animals Target, Mercy for Animals, Mcdonald's Egg Supplier, Mercy for Animals Mcdonald's, Food News

MINNEAPOLIS -- McDonald's and Target dropped one of the nation's largest egg suppliers after an animal rights group released an undercover video of th...

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McDonald's Drops Egg Producer After Seeing Shocking Undercover Video

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Eggs, Cargill, Animal Cruelty, McDonald's, Mcdonald's Sparboe Egg Farms, Mercy for Animals, Mcdonald's Eggs, Sparboe Egg Farms, Mcdonald's Egg Supplier, Mercy for Animals Mcdonald's, Video, Food News

Mercy For Animals, known for exposing instances of animal cruelty across the country, has just released its newest undercover footage. The video, whic...

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New Undercover Footage Of Gruesome Pig Abuse

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 08.29.2011

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Animal rights group Mercy For Animals has released ghastly undercover footage of pig abuse at Iowa Select, an industrial farm that supplies pork to Kr...

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Shocking Undercover Video Of One Of The Nation's Largest Pork Producers (GRAPHIC)

AP/The Huffington Post | By MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Video, Mercy for Animals, Mercy for Animals Iowa Select Farms, Iowa Select Farms Mercy for Animals, Iowa Select Farms, Undercover Animal Video, Activism, Farm Animal Videos, Undercover Farm Video, Mercy for Animals Video, Animals, Iowa Select Farms Video, Green News

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An animal welfare group that has used undercover videos to generate public outrage over the treatment of livestock said it no...

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Ag Gag 2011: What Does Agribusiness Have to Hide in Iowa?

Dave Murphy | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Mercy for Animals, Animal Welfare, Factory Farming, Animal Abuse, Iowa, Food Democracy Now!, Iowa Caucuses, Factory Farms, Ag-Gag Bill, Mary Matalin, Tom Reilly, Mike Gronstal, Jack DeCoster, Ag Gag Bill, Food News
Dave Murphy

Passing poorly conceived bills that limit Americans' freedoms and place an iron curtain between farmers and consumers is certain to backfire, only drawing more attention to agricultural practices.

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Would This Video Make You Stop Eating Beef? Futures Traders Think So

Martha Rosenberg | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Mercy for Animals, e6 Cattle Company, Animal Cruelty, Kirt Espenson, Big Food, Animal Abuse, Green News
Martha Rosenberg

After this video broke, June delivery for live cattle at the Chicago Mercantile exchange fell to $1.15 per pound, down over one percent.

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The Real Vegan Challenge Won't Be Televised (VIDEO)

Ari Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Veganism, Animal Cruelty, Video, Michael Pollan, Oprah Winfrey, Animal Rights, Mercy for Animals, James Cromwell, Vegan, Factory Farms, Cargill, Humane-Meat, Green News
Ari Solomon

It's been said that "As Oprah goes... so goes the nation." And in case you missed it, last week Oprah, and almost 400 of her staff, went vegan. Last T...

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Have Animal Rights Groups Finally Lost It? Should Fish Have Rights? (VIDEO)

Mikko Alanne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Food, Video, Mercy for Animals, Animal Rights, Catfish Corner, Fish, Seafood, Green News
Mikko Alanne

The most recent scientific evidence strongly suggests that fish feel and process pain much as mammals do. So isn't this a clear case of cruelty to animals?

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Disturbing Abuse Uncovered At Ohio Dairy Farm

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billy Joe Gregg, Animal Cruelty, Farm Animals, Mercy for Animals, Cows, Dairy, Undercover Investigation, Ohio, Animal Abuse, Agribusiness, Conklin Dairy, Gary Conklin, Food News
Wayne Pacelle

I have been traveling around Ohio the past few days with a half-dozen livestock farmers, who had assembled to speak out in favor of the ballot measure...

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Billy Joe Gregg, Conklin Dairy Farms Employee, Charged With Animal Cruelty After Abuse Video Surfaces

AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.25.2011

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CLEVELAND — A dairy farm worker was charged Wednesday with 12 counts of cruelty to animals after a welfare group released a video it says shows ...

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Conklin Dairy Video Shows Dairy Cows Being Violently Abused, Says Mercy For Animals (VIDEO)

AP / Huffington Post | By MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.25.2011

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CLEVELAND (AP/Huffington Post)-- An animal welfare group said Tuesday that a graphic video it secretly recorded shows workers at a dairy farm beating ...

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Dairy Industry: Got Ethics?

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Humane Society of the United States, California, Farm Animals, Animal Rights, Mercy for Animals, Cows, Nightline, Dairy, Abc, ABC News, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Downer Cow, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

There seems to be so little leadership in the agriculture community on animal welfare. It is both baffling and inexcusable.

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Cow Torture Video: Willet Dairy Caught Burning Off Cows' Horns, Chopping Calf's Tail In Mercy For Animals Expose

Huffington Post/AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dairy Cows, Animal Cruelty, Video, Animal Rights, Mercy for Animals, Cow Torture, Milk, Tail-Docking, New York Farm, Willet Dairy Video, Willet Dairy, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — An animal-rights group released a video Tuesday showing an upstate New York farm worker lopping off a calf's tail and burning off...

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Video Shows Chicks Ground Up Alive

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa Egg Hatchery, Chicks, Video, Mercy for Animals, Animal Rights, Chickens, Male Chicks Killed, Chicks Ground Up Alive, Ground Up Chicks, Green News

(AP) WASHINGTON — An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending...

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A Hate Crime You Won't See in Statistics

Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Nathan Runkle, Hate Crimes, Mercy for Animals, Animal Rights, Gay Rights, California Egg Factory, Political Activism, Homophobia, Obama Gay Rights, Hate Crimes Against Gays, President-Elect Obama, Prop 2, Violence Against Gays, Healthy Living News
Mikko Alanne

Each victim of a hate crime is equally precious. Each is equally deserving of protection and justice.

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Not So Eggcellent

Cheri Shankar | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Debeaking, Chickens, Proposition 2, Animal Rights, Animals, Hsus, Veganism, Prolapse, Menifee California, Norco Farms, Animal Abuse, Chicken Abuse, Vegetarianism, Egg Laying Farms, Chicken Farms, Prop 2, Mercy for Animals, Norco Ranch, Norco Farms Labor, Norco Farm Accountability, Healthy Living News
Cheri Shankar

When I found out about the true conditions under which egg-laying hens labor, it was easy to eliminate the not-so-Incredible, Edible Egg from my diet.

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