Monthly Archives: May 2010

Disturbing Ohio Dairy Farm Investigation Reveals Extreme Forms of Animal Abuse

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Two days ago, ABC News Niteline (and most of the other major news networks) reported on a groundbreaking investigation. The undercover investigator was hired as a worker at Conklin Dairy Farms in Ohio and recorded footage over the course of four weeks of workers maliciously and repeatedly abusing defenseless baby calves and female cows with pitchforks and crow bars and stomping on them with their boots when they were down, leaving them critically wounded and wailing in pain. … READ ON

Our Reliance on Animal Food Products Is Comparable to Our Reliance on Foreign Oil: Both Have Led Us Down a Path of Unsustainability

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Living greener or more responsibly means many things to many people. Yet while some people move into hybrid cars and governments stumble over renewable energy policies, the biggest impact we can all have immediately on protecting our environment is to … … READ ON

Lurking behind the next ‘fact-based” consumer food site you land on just might be corporate PR man Rick Berman

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Who is Rick Berman? Unless you are a big corporate executive looking to wage a big PR war against some consumer group, you would never have a reason to know him. Yet you’ve probably heard of one or more of Berman’s front organizations, like The Center for Consumer Freedom and HumaneWatch, which essentially target the general public and attack consumer groups like The Humane Society, PETA, The Center for Science in the Public Interest and many other leading environmental, animal welfare and social justice groups. … READ ON

New Discoveries in Animal Intelligence are Revealed in Jonathan Balcombe’s Book Second Nature

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“There is an enormous disconnect between what we now know of animals’ experiences of their lives, and how we treat them as a whole (most notably as in factory farms and commercial fishing — which consume some 75 billion sentient creatures yearly).” —Jonathan Balcombe … READ ON