TWIN FALLS -- Even though voters overturned the Students Come First laws, teachers who earned merit pay during the last school year can expect a payme...
Today, a coalition filed a proposed initiative petition in Washington state to halt the use of battery cage confinement in egg production.There is a commercially viable alternative: cage-free production.
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.
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.
In Ohio, half a million citizens signed petitions this year to place a measure on the statewide ballot to outlaw veal crates, gestation crates and battery cages.
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.
Seven U.S. states have now enacted legislation to reform inhumane factory farming systems. But agribusiness officials in Ohio and their legislative cronies have vehemently opposed basic humane reforms.
In 2008, Americans sent an unmistakable signal to Big Agribusiness that we will not tolerate the kinds of animal cruelty that had become standard. In 2009, let's work to accomplish even more.
There are problems with animal agriculture that still need attention, including painful mutilation of animals without anesthesia, the rampant use of antibiotics on factory farms, and waste generated by these operations.
Yesterday, California voters voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 2, a historic move that brings animals legal rights in the land of factory f...
In the No on Prop 2 commercial, we meet Dr. Kara Hutton and she's arguing the worst falsehood of all -- that human health depends on treating animals cruelly.
Proposition 2, a sweeping California ballot initiative designed to improve the treatment that farm animals receive, will be decided by voters on Novem...
Factory farm executives see the writing on the wall, and they know they can no longer get away with treating animals like commodities -- like nothing more than meat-producing machines.
Julie Buckner, Californians for Safe Food spokesperson, dissed the Humane Society, who's sponsoring Proposition 2, for being funded, apparently, by diamond-encrusted dog-loving dilettantes.
Learn more about California Proposition 2, regarding cruel confinement of farm animals. Check out my interview with a representative from the Yes on 2 campaign.
Eating is an experience, and when you know that what you are eating lived a short and miserable existence because of you it kind of ruins the taste of your food.
Have you thought about where the eggs for your breakfast come from? We're getting the first look at new undercover video taken at a Southern Californi...
Prop 2 would not require that animals be free range -- but would grant farm animals the ability to move about, even while caged, is just basic decency.
If you've accidentally sliced your finger while chopping tomatoes or something, you know how much it smarts, so imagine the agonizing pain these animals felt.
While some other newspaper editorial writers fell for the scare tactics of Big Agribusiness on Prop 2, plenty of opinion leaders have taken a thoughtful and careful look at the measure.
[Free Range Studios] is shining a spotlight on more factory farm abuses, and their new animated film urges Californians to vote YES! on Proposition 2. Watch this hilarious new video.