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October 18, 2011
New Agricultural Council Brings Nebraska Farmers, Ranchers and Animal Welfare Advocates to the Table to Discuss Common Goals
To advance more humane practices on farms and ranches and to promote food producers who share that goal, The Humane Society of the United States joined the Nebraska Farmers Union in Lincoln to announce the formation of an advisory body, the Nebraska Agriculture Council of The Humane Society of the United States.
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June 30, 2011
“Ag Gag” Bills Die in Iowa, Minnesota, Florida
Iowa is the latest state whose "ag gag" bill died with the legislative session. Minnesota and Florida also proposed failed "ag gag" bills in attempts to squelch whistleblowing.
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April 14, 2011
Farm Animal News to Note
If you missed these recent articles on farm animal issues, you should check them out.
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November 29, 2010
Humanely Raised? Challenging Perdue's Claims
The Humane Society of the United States announced the filing of a class action lawsuit against the nation’s third-largest poultry producer, Perdue Farms, over the company’s alleged false advertising of factory farmed chicken products as “humane.”
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November 23, 2010
Inhumane Treatment at Turkey Industry’s Largest Hatchery
An HSUS investigator documented abuses at the Willmar Poultry Company, which produces 50 percent of the nation's whole turkeys.
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September 14, 2010
The Humane Society of the United States Becomes Seaboard Corporation Shareholder Following Company’s Butterball Buyout
The Humane Society of the U.S. has purchased stock in Seaboard to encourage Butterball to switch to a more humane slaughter method.
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March 8, 2010
A Line in the Sand
Ohioans join the fight against factory farming's chokehold
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November 9, 2009
Eating Animals
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer has written a non-fiction book about factory farming called Eating Animals.
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October 26, 2009
Article Points to Human and Animal Welfare Costs of Long-Distance Farm Animal Transport
A chapter in the upcoming book Handbook of Disease Outbreaks: Prevention, Detection and Control implicates the long-distance transport of farm animals in the spread of human and animal diseases. Dr. Michael Greger, director of public health and animal agriculture for The HSUS, co-authored the chapter.
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September 16, 2009
Take a Bite Out of IHOP's Animal Cruelty
unlike many restaurant chains, IHOP still uses eggs from hens kept in cruel battery-cage confinement systems.
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September 1, 2009
The HSUS Urges Tyson Foods to Reduce Suffering of Animals at its Slaughter Plants
The Humane Society of the United States filed a shareholder resolution encouraging Tyson Foods to begin offering some products from chickens killed by a higher-welfare slaughter system called controlled-atmosphere killing. The HSUS owns 750 shares of Tyson Foods stock.
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May 27, 2009
"Food, Inc." Documentary Raises Questions about What We Eat
The HSUS cosponsored a screening of the documentary Food, Inc.
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August 8, 2008
The HSUS and HSLF Applaud NY Bill to Protect Human and Animal Welfare
The HSUS and HSLF commend New York Gov. Paterson for signing legislation to protect public health and animal welfare by regulating the slaughter of birds and other animals at live poultry markets.
