Tim Hortons, Canada's mega-popular coffee and bakery chain, has announced that it will stop sourcing pork from any company that uses gestation crates,...
When Bon Appétit Management Company's CEO and founder Fedele Bauccio recently read a Pork Network op-ed by food industry and consumer advocate Rick B...
Armed with an inflatable pig and a suit and a tie, Phil Letten has been traveling around the country, protesting Walmart. The Mercy for Animals act...
Do you think it's acceptable to cram an animal into a crate so small she can't even turn around, lie down comfortably, walk, run, play, or engage in other basic behaviors? Walmart does.
You wouldn't be able to move, so your muscles and bones would deteriorate. Your feet would become lacerated. You would go insane. That's precisely what happens to laying hens.
The fast food industry continues to be one of the most powerful forces in the U.S. and across the globe, affecting not just the daily lives of people ...
There is a battle going on between animal protection advocates and the pork industry over "gestation crates," the 2-foot by 7-foot cages that confine about 80 percent of the United States' breeding pigs.
It's easy to come down hard on pork producers, and I'm perfectly willing to do that, but I think we need to tackle this problem at its source: the demand for ever-cheaper pork.
So on Monday, October 1, is World Vegetarian Day--the kickoff for Vegetarian Awareness Month than runs throughout October. If you've been toying with the idea of going vegetarian, then let me be your cheerleader, and let the following lists inform and inspire! Good luck...and please share your journey!
NEW YORK (AP) — Dunkin' Donuts says it will start using cage-free eggs in its breakfast sandwiches and eliminate "gestation crates" from its pork su...
* Humane Society of United States buys stock in BlackRock, others * Activists hope investors force farm practice changes ...
Sysco, the world's largest broadline food distributor, is the latest to join the ranks of other restaurant chains and organizations that have pledged ...
A horrific video, taken by an investigator hired by Los Angeles-based Mercy for Animals, puts Walmart in the hot seat with claims that the company buy...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Costco Wholesale Corp. on Tuesday joined a growing list of retailers and restaurants in asking suppliers to phase out the use of small ...
As part of its ongoing campaign to help end the use of commercial gestation crates -- a much maligned practice that involves the confinement of pregna...
Oscar Mayer, owned by Kraft Foods, has joined the ranks of several other major food companies by pledging to source its pork from suppliers that no lo...
Rhode Island lawmakers have enacted legislation making illegal the extreme confinement of breeding pigs and veal calfs in small crates -- in other wor...
Following its February declaration to help its suppliers phase out pork gestation crates, McDonald's announced late last month a finite plan to elimin...
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. ...
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.
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...
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...
According to its new policy, BK will only do business with pork suppliers that have detailed plans to end their use of gestation crates.
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...
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...
