Texas Regulatory Agencies Sued Over Cal-Maine
Video from the Humane Society of the United States, released last month, showed live chickens trampling dead chickens in crowded cages over manure pits, and eggs covered with blood and feces. Those...
View ArticleComments Requested on Disabled Livestock Policy
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is requesting comments on two petitions for rulemaking submitted to the agency by animal rights groups aimed at reforming...
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Humane Deaths Sought for ‘Downer’ Animals
Non-ambulatory disabled veal calves and other animals that cannot walk on their own on to the kill floor should be “humanely euthanized,” two animal welfare groups say. A comment period just ended for...
View ArticleWho Really Benefits from the Egg Industry Deal?
Last week, the Humane Society of the United States held an unusual press conference. The group announced an agreement with its long-time adversary, the United Egg Producers, to jointly seek federal...
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Some See Cage Accord as a Good Start
The recent deal between the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the United Egg Producers (UEP), more commonly known as adversaries, to improve egg-laying hens’ living conditions struck many...
View ArticleAmericans Don’t Eat Horses
A recent article invoked America’s cowboy culture as the only reason we don’t eat horses, but there’s much more to it than that (“Horse Slaughter Issue Won’t Go Away,” Oct. 25). While it’s true that...
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Livestock Groups, Egg Industry at Odds Over HSUS Deal
Major livestock groups are urging Congress to reject the historic deal struck between the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the United Egg Producers (UEP) on egg production, but egg...
View ArticleBill Introduced to Improve Welfare Standard for Egg-Laying Hens
The Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers — who, by all accounts, are strange bedfellows — announced Monday strong support for H.R. 3798, the Egg Products Inspection Act...
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HSUS Reports ‘Deplorable’ Conditions at Large PA Egg Farm
The animal agriculture industry is facing another round of unflattering headlines. The Humane Society of the United States on Thursday released video and photographs of alleged abuse and insanitary...
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Senators Aim to Add National Egg Standards to Farm Bill
A bipartisan group of senators is hoping to add what would be the first federal standards for livestock housing and welfare to the Farm Bill, which the upper chamber is set to begin debating today....
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Two Applications in For Horse Slaughter; Opposition Gears Up
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) won’t admit it has received either request, but the agency now has two formal applications for inspection of horse meat-for-export processing...
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House Budget For USDA Bans Spending on Horse Slaughter
A House committee vote may have closed the barn door before horse slaughter will ever be resumed in the United States. The powerful Appropriations Committee has by voice vote agreed to again ban...
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Horse Slaughter Sides Agree on Food Safety Problem
Before horses can again be slaughtered in the United States for human consumption, USDA is going to have to get a harness on one food safety issue that all sides agree is a problem. Unlike cows, pigs,...
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Landmark Settlement Reached in Westland-Hallmark Meat Case
The now-defunct Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. sparked the largest-ever meat recall after egregious, undercover abuse footage was made public in 2008 and now the company has sparked the largest-ever...
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Letter From The Editor: A Face for Radio
I would prefer to be contacted simply for “reporting without bias,” but Katie Cooper, the national radio producer actually said she was contacting me because I was about the only “dispassionate”...
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2013 Legislative Season Ends with ‘Ag-Gag’ Bills Defeated in 11 States
It took a time-killing debate in the Indiana General Assembly and a game-changing veto by Gov. Bill Haslam in Tennessee. And only when North Carolina’s Legislature adjourned for the year last Friday...
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Smithfield, Tyson Encouraging Transition Away From Gestation Crates
Major pork producers Smithfield Foods and Tyson Foods have both announced plans this week to develop animal welfare improvements within their facilities, including moving away from the practice of...
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Advocates Ask Foster Farms About Antibiotics Use
More than 30 advocate groups sent a letter to Foster Farms CEO Ron Foster this week asking the company to disclose its use of antibiotics and pledge to avoid routine use of the drugs in raising its...
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Omnibus Spending Bill Defunds USDA Horse Slaughter Inspection
Language in the FY 2014 omnibus spending bill now headed for President Obama’s desk re-establishes law that existed from 2005 to 2011 prohibiting USDA from spending any money to inspect horse-slaughter...
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Perdue Will Remove Its ‘Humanely Raised’ Label to Settle HSUS Lawsuits
Perdue has agreed to remove the “humanely raised” claim from the labels on its Harvestland chicken packaging. In exchange, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) will drop two class-action...
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