Two weeks ago, state officials rushed a critically endangered California condor to the Los Angeles Zoo for symptoms related to lead poisoning. According to The Californian she was the female half of the only breeding pair of California condors in San Benito County, Calif.

She did...

Jonathan Safran Foer has burst from his comfortable cocoon in the world of fiction writing and thrown four feet into the tussle over the food we eat in America through his first work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. In just the past couple weeks, he's had major pieces in the

I've been encouraged, even heartened, by the swift and broad reaction to The Humane Society of the United States' recent undercover investigations of wanton animal abuse at a heinous facility in Vermont that specializes in slaughtering infant calves discarded by the dairy industry and processes them to make "bob...

The public has soured on bailouts for industries that have made the wrong decisions for years. With the billions it doled out to the financial services and auto industries, the federal government has finally imposed some requirements, modest though they may be, on the companies that received vast sums of...

We at The Humane Society of the United States have focused much of our farm animal welfare reform efforts on combating intensive confinement and inhumane slaughter. Humane transportation is a major welfare issue, but so, too, is the genetic manipulation of animals and its implications for their health.

After trying some of Tal Ronnen's recipes, celebrated chef Charlie Palmer said "I never believed that a meal without meat could look so good or be so satisfying." Bob Greene, author of the best-selling book The Best Life Diet, asserted, "Whether you follow a vegan lifestyle or not, this book...

I've immensely enjoyed watching the first three parts of the Ken Burns six-part series on the history of America's national parks--The National Parks: America's Best Idea. My thoughts have been drawn not just to the parks themselves, but also the foresighted people who dared to believe in the concept...

The Humane Society of the United States has a long track record of successful work with food companies on developing forward-thinking animal welfare policies -- advancements that result in meaningful improvements for animals such as ending the use of extreme confinement systems like battery cages and gestation crates.

So often, we hear government critics decry "pork" projects and "pork" spending. These phrases are figurative, indicating wasteful use of public funds. But never have these phrases had such a literal meaning, as our government actually bails out the pork industry when it overproduces and buys up volumes of surplus...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my hope that President-elect Barack Obama would ask his Agriculture Secretary nominee, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, to break the hold of Big Agribusiness on the U.S. Department of Agriculture and to broaden the agency's outlook and constituency. Following Obama's election,...

This piece originally appeared as an Op-ed in the Los Angeles Times Oct 28, 2008

California's farm animals and consumers deserve Proposition 2's protections.

Two weeks ago, video from an undercover investigation at Norco Ranch, owned by Missouri-based Moark, was released to the public showing pitiful images of animals abused...