factory farming

I’ve always thought that many of the issues I am concerned about—the environment, human rights, peace, overconsumption, animal welfare—are all really one big issue. Rarely have I encountered such a thorough examination of the connections between animal welfare and just about every other issue that concerns me than in the book 

If you ask the Colonel, he'll tell you that the only way to keep a prisoner in line is to see to it that he won't get up when you rub his face in the dirt. And the only way to keep the guards happy is to let them have their fun. That's the way it's always been down on the farm, because that's just how the Colonel likes it.

Oprah exposed some of the horrors inherent in the nature of the puppy mill business. However, she made, what we consider to be, a blunder when she defended the breeders by saying that they thought of these dogs as livestock. The implication is that livestock can be abysmally treated by their owners. Sign the petition and pass it along to everyone.

The Great American Meatout encourages you to give up meat for a day (or more). Here's a look at some of the environmental reasons why that's a good idea.

Eating supermarket beef is not only supporting blatant cruelty to animals, but the stuff you are putting in your mouth cannot be called food. It is disgusting. The easiest way that you can do your part to end this needless suffering is to go vegan or vegetarian>. If that is not an option at this time for you or your family, then please seek out grass fed beef for both the well being of the livestock and for the well being of your family.

Industrial animal production, the practice of confining thousands of cows, hogs, chickens, or other animals in tightly packed facilities has become the dominant method of meat production in the United States

Not only is factory farming unacceptable because of the mistreatment to animals but also workers - who else but the unskilled could possibly work in a slaughterhouse?  Emotional and physical stress to all - animals, workers, consumers...... the only winner is big ag

Chef James Oliver, 32, hosted a filmed dinner in which food producers were served chicken - then shown clips of the birds being slaughtered and suffering during intensive farming

Why doesn't it occur to people that if you raise animals in cleaner and more humane conditions with more space, there's less risk of contamination?

America's obesity epidemic and global warming might not seem to have much in common. But public health experts suggest people can attack them both by cutting calories and carbon dioxide at the same time.

How? Get out of your car and walk or bike half an hour a day instead of driving. And while you're at it, eat less red meat. That's how Americans can simultaneously save the planet and their health, say doctors and climate scientists.

It's a silent but deadly source of greenhouse gases that contributes more to global warming than the entire world transportation sector, yet politicians almost never discuss it, and environmental lobbyists and other green activist groups seem unaware of its existence.That may be because it's tough to take cow flatulence seriously. But livestock emissions are no joke. 

Watch this new cartoon from the Sierra Club about poultry factory farming, pollution and the politicians that enable this. Contact your legislators and remember to boycott factory farmed products!

EVER since “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore has been the darling of environmentalists, but that movie hardly endeared him to the animal rights folks. According to them, the most inconvenient truth of all is that raising animals for meat contributes more to global warming than all the sport utility vehicles combined. The biggest animal rights groups do not always overlap in their missions, but now they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is a vegetarian. I pay attention to factoids like that these days because I'm trying to become a vegetarian. I stopped eating all meat a month ago. Disclaimer: I still eat fish.

The ethical turmoil started when I watched baby ducks swimming after their mothers in the river this summer. So sweet and fragile. How could I eat them? (With plum sauce, my snarky friends would say...) Seriously, how could I eat them? So duck came off the menu.