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A Lifetime of Confinement: The Secret Suffering of Mother Pigs
For most of their short lives, mother pigs in factory farms are subjected to egregious abuse. They are kept in cages—gestation crates during pregnancy and farrowing crates after giving birth—that are barely larger than their bodies. This cycle repeats until they are slaughtered. Gestation Crates First introduced in the 1960s, gestation crates are used to […]
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal to Revive Harmful Kansas Ag-Gag Law
In a huge win for animals and workers, the Supreme Court of the United States has rejected an appeal by Kansas to review—in the hope that the court would revive—a harmful ag-gag law. First struck down by lower courts, the law made it a crime for anyone to record footage or take photographs inside slaughterhouses […]
How Women Are Disrupting the Food System and Creating the Future of Food
The books we read, the movies we watch, the stories we tell one another shape not only what we think is true but what we think is possible. When it comes to the food-tech and food-solutions space, the media predominantly heralds stories of heroic white men disrupting the market, bringing in shocking investments, and making […]
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