factory farming

France to Ban Shredding and Gassing of Male Chicks

France to Ban Shredding and Gassing of Male Chicks

The culling of male chicks will be outlawed next year in France, Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie announced on Sunday. Each year, 50 million male chicks are killed by being shredded, or gassed with carbon monoxide because they don’t produce eggs nor grow as large as female chicks, according to Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland’s National […]

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    It’s Time to Rethink What We Eat, Annual Meat Consumption Report Argues

    It’s Time to Rethink What We Eat, Annual Meat Consumption Report Argues

    “Industrial meat production is not only responsible for precarious working conditions, it also pushes people off their land, leads to deforestation, biodiversity loss and the use of pesticides — and is also one of the main drivers of the climate crisis.” Such were the words of Barbara Unmüssig of green think tank, the Heinrich Böll […]

    Why the USDA Is Being Sued — Again

    Why the USDA Is Being Sued — Again

    By Dena Jones The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was sued three times this past summer for shirking its responsibility to protect birds from egregious welfare violations and safeguard workers at slaughterhouses from injuries and the spread of the coronavirus. Over the years, it has become abundantly clear that federal regulators not only let animal […]

    Factory Farming Ban Proposed by Senators Booker, Warren

    Factory Farming Ban Proposed by Senators Booker, Warren

    The dangers of working shoulder-to-shoulder in a meat processing plant have come to the forefront as the novel coronavirus has exposed the fragility of the meat industry’s supply chain. Factory farming is also resource intensive, leading to deforestation and fueling the climate crisis. It also accounts for 99 percent of the meat that Americans consume. […]

    Antibiotic Crisis Coming as Superbugs Gain Strength and Drug Companies Go Bankrupt

    Antibiotic Crisis Coming as Superbugs Gain Strength and Drug Companies Go Bankrupt

    Countries around the world are seeing a mounting threat from antibiotic resistance. After decades of overprescribing antibiotics and overusing them in factory farming, rivers are polluted with antibiotics and complications from drug-resistant infections are projected to cost $100 trillion by 2050, according to Scientific American. The Centers for Disease Control released a report last month […]

    Cory Booker Proposes to Shut Down New Factory Farms

    Cory Booker Proposes to Shut Down New Factory Farms

    New Jersey senator and presidential hopeful Cory Booker put forth the Farm System Reform Act of 2019, in recognition of the environmental impact of industrial agriculture, which would put a stop to any new factory farms, as The Hill reported. The bill will reform the agriculture system by breaking up monopolistic practices in the industry […]

    If Factory Farm Conditions Are Unhealthy for Animals, They’re Bad for People Too

    If Factory Farm Conditions Are Unhealthy for Animals, They’re Bad for People Too

    By Tia Schwab In 2014, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commissioned by the UK government and Wellcome Trust, estimated that 700,000 people around the world die each year due to drug-resistant infections. A follow-up report two years later showed no change in this estimate of casualties. Without action, that number could grow to 10 million […]

    Animal Rights Group Hopes to Turn Poultry Farmers into Plant Growers

    Animal Rights Group Hopes to Turn Poultry Farmers into Plant Growers

    By Alex Robinson Leah Garcés used to hate poultry farmers. The animal rights activist, who opposes factory farming, had an adversarial relationship with chicken farmers until around five years ago, when she sat down to listen to one. She met a poultry farmer called Craig Watts in rural North Carolina and learned that the problems […]