Tag: humane treatment of farm animals
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Dunkin Donuts will switch to cage-free eggs
By Wayne Pacelle • Originally published on the Humane Society of the United States blog If you don’t think we are in the midst of a period of punctuated change for animals on factory farms, and specifically on the use of gestation crates and battery cages, you haven’t been reading A Humane Nation. On December 7, in…
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Clearing the Air About Factory Farming and Ag-Gag Laws
By Paul Shapiro What do our nation’s farms and chemical manufacturing labs have in common? Well, for some pig factory farms in America, more than you might expect. Pigs poop—a lot. And when you concentrate huge numbers of pigs inside one building, you get a huge amount of poop. Yet collecting so much of that waste…
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Why Meat Is So Cheap in America
Ironically, many people who are against immigration or foreign workers would be paying ten dollars or more for their fast food hamburgers without these cheap workers. Most people in industrialized and Western countries are uncomfortable with slaughter and don’t particularly want to know who does it … and how. Yet as immigration debates continue, US…
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Video: Shocking Truths You Need to Know About Costco Eggs
In 2007, Costco — the second-largest grocery retailer in the USA — made a public commitment to eliminate cage confinement of chickens from its supply chain. Eight years later, you would think things would have changed for the better. But they haven’t. The egg cartons sold at Costco portray happy hens in green fields. But…
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General Mills Commits to Cage-Free Eggs
By Wayne Pacelle • Originally posted on HumaneSociety.org Within the last six months or so, we’ve worked with many of the biggest names in the food business to announce their commitment to stop selling eggs from caged hens. Aramark, Compass Group, Dunkin Brands, Hilton, Kellogg, Nestle, Sodexo, Starbucks, and Walmart have all made public pledges…
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News: Walmart, Nation’s Biggest Food Seller, Adopts Principles for More Humane Treatment of Farm Animals
By Wayne Pacelle • Originally posted on HumaneSociety.org On May 22, Walmart, one of the world’s biggest companies – and the nation’s biggest food seller by a long shot – announced it has adopted the “five freedoms” principles for farm animals, effectively renouncing the use of extreme confinement and other abusive practices in animal agriculture,…
