New Zealand Halts Live Export After Ship Carrying Nearly 6,000 Cows Capsizes
Last week, a ship carrying 43 crew members and nearly 6,000 cows capsized off the coast of Japan. So far, only two crew members have been rescued, and images have...
New Study Results Could Greatly Reduce Suffering for Billions of Chickens
This week, Global Animal Partnership published the initial results of a two-year study that could greatly reduce suffering for the billions of chickens raised for meat each year—nine billion in...
Acclaimed Photographer Releases Heartbreaking Footage Inside Egg Farm
Newly released footage reveals hens crammed into tiny cages, living above piles of excrement and broken eggs, and painfully wounded by cage wire. The footage was taken at egg farms...
New Investigation: Horrendous Conditions Drive Pigs to Cannibalism
Recently released undercover footage of a pig farm in Leicestershire, U.K., reveals piglets mutilated, sick pigs left to slowly die, and animals driven to cannibalism by the horrendous conditions. Over...
Foster Farms Poultry Plant Forced to Shut Down After Eight Worker Deaths
Merced County health officials have temporarily shut down Foster Farms’ poultry plant in Livingston, California, after 358 employees tested positive for COVID-19, and eight workers died. According to officials, the...
Indigenous Scholar Shares How Factory Farms Harm Poor Communities
David Shane Lowry is an associate professor of anthropology at Biola University and a member of the Lumbee tribe. His family has lived near large-scale chicken factory farms (also known...
Dairy Farmer Transitions to Oat Milk, Turns Farm into Sanctuary
Jay Wilde—a former dairy and beef farmer in Derbyshire, England—has begun producing handmade organic oat milk. While the milk is currently offered only to local customers, it will soon be...
Thousands of Chicks Smothered, Crushed, and Lost During Mail Shipment
Chicks shipped through the U.S. Postal Service are getting smothered, crushed, and lost in postal warehouses. Day-old chicks, ducklings, and other animals have been mailed to U.S. farmers for decades....
New Study: Choosing Beyond Meat over Animal Meat Reduces Risk of Heart Disease
The results are in for the first-ever clinical trial using vegan Beyond Meat products! Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the Stanford University SWAP-MEAT study compared the health...
Doctors Sign Letter Urging the USDA to Label Dairy Products “Unnecessary”
Doctors, nurses, and dietitians have come together to sign a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services urging them to label dairy products...