Rotten Eggs: HSUS and United Egg Producers Enter Agreement That Bird Cages Are Here to Stay
The latest agreement between HSUS and UEP appears to offer little in terms of animal welfare, yet much in terms of positive PR.
The latest agreement between HSUS and UEP appears to offer little in terms of animal welfare, yet much in terms of positive PR.
Nil Zacharias | Posted 08.21.2011
No one can deny that it's better to be less cruel in the ways we confine and kill animals (if we are going to kill and eat them anyway), but if we're interested in long-term change, we can't look at killing with kindness or gratitude as a solution in itself.
Lael Hazan | Posted 05.25.2011
Are factory farmed eggs inferior? The factory produces bland eggs extraordinarily well. Lots of money and research has been spent on finding the optimal breed and they are housed to create maximum production.
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011
We need preventative solutions, not just reactions to the next outbreak. Phasing out cage confinement of hens, and moving toward cage-free egg production, is better for animals and better for us.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, Missouri voters approved Proposition B, requiring that large-scale commercial breeders provide in a year's time sufficient space for dogs, ...
Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011
It helps to have a personal relationship with your next meal Sitting down to supper as a 4-year-old, I recall my sisters' ardent concerns about who w...
Suzan Colón | Posted 05.25.2011
If you pay more for organic, cage-free eggs, guess what: The yolk's on you.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee conducted a hearing on this summer's massive egg recall, and witnesses included the owners of the facto...
Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011
As the egg recall fades, I took a look at exactly what went on? Reality is. has anything really changed is anything going to change? Or as I fear it will be buisiness as usual?
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, the New York Times covers two of the pitched debates in our society about animals -- the controversy over the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research and the industrial confinement of laying hens in cages for egg production.
The Stir | Posted 05.25.2011
If you're pregnant, be especially careful with any eggs, and if you're not pregnant, you need to start thinking like a pregnant lady and avoid any and all foods that contain raw or uncooked eggs in any form.
Fedele Bauccio | Posted 05.25.2011
Our egg industry is an emblem of industrialized animal agribusiness -- a system that jeopardizes the health of American consumers each and every day, institutionally abuses animals, and pollutes our seas and waterways.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
The assurances from the egg industry that its operators maintain safe and clean facilities, treat animals humanely, and do it all at low cost are a charade. The eggs may seem cheap, but the costs are passed on in terms of health costs.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
The lifelong extreme confinement of laying hens in tiny cages is not just inhumane, it's also been linked to human disease. Every one of the eggs recently recalled for Salmonella came from hens confined in cages.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
The Humane Society of the United States announced that a federal judge has ordered a trial in a federal legal case we brought against a polluting egg factory farm in the Central Valley of California.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
With 40 million consumers in California, it would be hard to overestimate the potential of this bill to change the way laying hens are treated throughout the country.
Posted 05.25.2011
Tom Cruise appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Friday night and the two commenced what ostensibly was to be a cooking demo for Cruise's spaghetti carbonara....
Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 05.25.2011
The European Union has passed a law that bans conventional battery cages starting in 2012, so McDonald's Europe has committed to being 100% cage-free ...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
The top egg producers in the nation are treating animals in ways that are unconscionable. But there is an alternative. Many consumers, supermarkets, restaurants, and food service providers demand that egg producers convert to cage-free systems.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
In a detailed story on Sunday, Columbus Dispatch reporter Alan Johnson previewed one of the flashpoints in the debate over confining laying hens in ba...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Old ways of viewing animals as commodities and objects are stubborn, and so are many of the people who defend the status quo.
Posted 05.25.2011
Bill Maher and The Humane Society have banded together to create this video urging IHOP to follow the lead of other fast food chains by switching to c...
The Huffington Post | Jonathan Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
We all love animals, but how much time is there to devote to all of their causes? Between saving whales, pigs, chickens, dolphins, rhesus monkeys, wea...
Los Angeles Times | Deborah Netburn | Posted 05.25.2011
Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne started keeping chickens in their Echo Park backyard a little more than a year ago. The two are co-authors of "The Urban ...
Jenna Woginrich | Posted 05.25.2011
Tired of paying five bucks for cage-free eggs? Want an organic source of protein right in your own backyard? Well, a lot of folks feel the same way: their answer's a backyard flock of chickens.
Andrew Gunther | Posted 09.13.2011