Jan 30
Slaughtering animals and processing their flesh is an inherently dangerous industry where company profits consistently take priority over workers’ most basic rights. Today, U.S. slaughterhouses and “meat”-processing facilities employ over 500,000 workers.[1] In their endless goal of higher volume and greater efficiency, these corporations knowingly jeopardize workers’ safety every day. For decades, the state and federal …
Jan 20
When Emily Moran Barwick creates a piece of art, she said it’s an attempt to get people to think more deeply about a certain subject. When the 28-year-old Iowa City resident took a job as a stripper in 2010 and gave her earnings to other artists, the idea was to get people to think about …
Jan 19
Horror means different things to different people. Alex Hershaft was a child in the Warsaw ghetto. He was just a little boy when his father and other family members were rounded up by the Nazis to be killed. He saw beatings, shootings, starvation and the anguish of families being separated. He survived. But, he still …
Jan 14
Acclaimed artist Gretchen Ryan has teamed up with Mercy For Animals to shoot a YouTube video highlighting the plight of dairy cows. The three-minute piece, modeled after videos recorded by bullied teens, tells a harrowing, emotional story. Mercy For Animals undercover investigations have revealed time and again the rampant abuse suffered by cows on dairy farms. …
Jan 10
With a healthy, organic image, cheese and milk from British goat farms have become popular items on our shopping lists. Now scenes we might imagine of free-range herds grazing on lush fields have been rocked by claims of animal cruelty. Undercover filming at two of the largest goat farms by animal campaigners Viva, shows images …
Jan 09
According to the Associated Press, dozens of federal homeland security agents raided Sparboe Farms in Litchfield, Minnesota, on Tuesday as part of a “larger criminal investigation” and ten people were detained, possibly as illegal immigrants. Sparboe Farms is the fifth-largest egg producer in the country. Authorities have not yet released the nature of the investigation. This …
Jan 07
Horrific abuse of pigs has once again been exposed by Mercy for Animals Canada in an undercover investigation of a Puratone Corp. farm in Alborg, Manitoba, which was chosen at random. The footage was obtained by an undercover investigator over a three-month period that began at the end of the summer and shows multiple problems ranging from downer …
Jan 06
The Humane Society of the United States has teamed up with Academy Award-winning Aardman Studios to create A Pig’s Tail, a short but compelling animated film about a pig’s perspective of factory farming. Featuring the voices of James Arnold Taylor and Catherine Taber and original music by Steven Delopoulos, the film gives a taste of how …
Jan 02
As Animals Australia embarks on our most ambitious campaign ever, we’re thrilled to join forces with some of the nation’s most loved and respected identities to help Make it Possible. Celebrities from the music, entertainment and sporting fields have shown their compassion and support for animals confined to factory farms. Just like everyday Australians across …
Dec 20
Mercy For Animals’ undercover investigation at aButterball turkey factory farm in Hoke County, North Carolina, has led to what is believed to be the first-ever felony cruelty to animals conviction related to birds used for food production in US history. Considering that poultry make up 8 out of the nearly 9 billion land animals raised and …
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