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Activist Explains Why He's Driving Around The Country With A 10 Ft. Inflatable Pig Protesting Walmart

Posted 03.05.2013 | Business

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...

Turkey Torture: Butterball Workers Found Guilty of Cruelty to Animals

Nathan Runkle | Posted 04.29.2013 | Green
Nathan Runkle

Tragically, each day of a turkey's life in a Butterball factory farm is filled with deprivation and brutality, due to the company's complete lack of meaningful animal welfare policies, training, or procedures.

Acclaimed Artist Gretchen Ryan Speaks Up for Abused Animals in New Viral Video (VIDEO)

Mikko Alanne | Posted 03.13.2013 | Green
Mikko Alanne

They say a single picture is worth a thousand words. Gretchen Ryan should know -- her haunting, evocative paintings have been exhibited in galleries around the world.

This Little Piggy Got Slammed Against Concrete

Ari Solomon | Posted 02.25.2013 | Green
Ari Solomon

Our society cuddles and coddles certain animals (dogs and cats) while relegating others to the monstrosities of the slaughterhouse. It's wrong, shameful, and woefully inconsistent.

WATCH: Butterball Abuse Commercial To Air On Several Networks

Posted 11.19.2012 | Home

Last week, the animal rights group Mercy For Animals released a video alleging abuse at a Butterball turkey slaughterhouse. This is in addition to ano...

In-N-Out Distances Itself From Shocking Farm Abuse Video

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 10.12.2012 | Los Angeles

Southern California fast-food chain In-N-Out is distancing itself from the largest dairy farm in Idaho after footage of shocking animal abuse emerged ...

Thirty Days, Thirty Reasons, Thirty Ways: Go Vegetarian In October!

Kathy Stevens | Posted 11.28.2012 | Home
Kathy Stevens

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!

Kathleen Miles

Alleged Shocking Pig Abuse By Walmart Supplier

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 07.20.2012 | Los Angeles

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...

Standard Industry Practice?

AP | By STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 07.18.2012 | Green

MINNEAPOLIS -- Costco Wholesale Corp. on Tuesday joined a growing list of retailers and restaurants in asking suppliers to phase out the use of small ...

Safeway Claims Big Change In Its Pork Will Come

Posted 05.07.2012 | Home

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...

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

Ari Solomon | Posted 05.02.2012 | Green
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.

Butterball Turkey Raid Leads To Criminal Charges And Arrests

Posted 02.16.2012 | Home

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

Butterball Turkey Factory Raided After Undercover Video Reveals Cruelty

Posted 12.30.2011 | Home

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

Target Follows McDonald's Lead, Drops Egg Supplier

AP | By STEVE KARNOWSKI and DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 11.20.2011 | Home

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...

McDonald's Drops Egg Producer After Seeing Shocking Undercover Video

Posted 11.18.2011 | Home

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

New Undercover Footage Of Gruesome Pig Abuse

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 08.29.2011 | Home

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...

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 | Green

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...

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

Dave Murphy | Posted 07.29.2011 | Home
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.

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

Martha Rosenberg | Posted 06.21.2011 | Green
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.

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

Ari Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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...

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

Mikko Alanne | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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?

Disturbing Abuse Uncovered At Ohio Dairy Farm

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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...

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

AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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 ...

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

AP / Huffington Post | By MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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

Dairy Industry: Got Ethics?

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Wayne Pacelle

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