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Nestlé announces groundbreaking global animal welfare reforms
Nestle, the world’s largest food company and owner of Nestle Purina PetCare, announced it is adopting animal welfare standards across its entire global supply chain – covering over 90 countries – in what may be the most comprehensive and far-reaching animal welfare policy of its kind. Cruel industry practices addressed Nestlé’s program will eliminate from its global supply chain any…
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Unhappy pet food formula: Animal cruelty included
If you think this is only about the welfare of chickens, think again. Realize that that chicken shit along with spilled chicken feed containing Specified Risk Materials is fed to cattle creating a circle in Hell where cows are fed shit and BSE. And no, prions are not destroyed by heat, so guess where they end up? In you pet’s…
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Portrait of a Confused Conscious Carnivore
I live in the country where flocks of wild turkeys happily roam free, canoodling in the woods, scampering down the streets, blissfully unaware that the worst holiday in the history of turkeys lurks just days away…Thanksgiving. Mercifully, these cute little cluckers have no idea what their bucolic life might have been had they been unfortunate enough to have been born…
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Did you know your chicken sandwich used to feel empathy?
Don’t you just hate it when people guilt trip you about your food choices? I do! Crimeny, if I had a nickel for every time my Mom said, “Jesus, Moll, did you eat ALL the ____?” or my other favorite: “Christ, with a diet like yours, it’s a wonder you’re not DEAD yet!” In honor of International Respect for Chickens…
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Poultry farmers motto: Use everything but the cluck
There’s a saying popular with the poultry industry crowd: “We recycle everything but the cluck!” Depending on your view of recycling that could be considered a good thing, but I have a feeling the poultry industry missed the memo that said, “Although recycling has a lot of benefits to humans, animals and the planet — the product you create from…
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I'll Have Two Extra Crispy Breasts Please, Hold the Arsenic
Don’t you just hate it when they always give you cancer with your order of chicken? Well, so do a couple of politicians in the State of Maryland. Fed up with the Feds doing nothing as usual, they introduced two bills that would ban arsenic-based drugs commonly used in the feed of commercial poultry operations. News of these bills was…
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Safe Meat and Factory Farming: A Contradiction in Terms
Safe Meat A Letter to the Editor of the New York Times To the Editor: Mark Bittman wants to outlaw confined livestock feeding operations because, he says, they harm the environment, torture animals and make meat less safe (“A Food Manifesto for the Future,” column, Feb. 2). We take issue with him on all three points. Yes, there were a…
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Consuming Tragedy: Eating Veal
Comments Requested on Disabled Livestock Policy The U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is requesting comments on two petitions for rulemaking submitted to the agency by animal rights groups aimed at reforming the agency’s policies on non-ambulatory disabled livestock at slaughter. A petition submitted by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) requests that FSIS…
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Arsenic and old sewage sludge: It’s what’s poisoning pets
You wouldn’t eat arsenic, so why do pet food manufacturers think you’d feed it to your cat or dog? Perhaps they’re hoping you’ll never find out how much toxic metal is in pet food, and on the off chance that someone does find out, no one, including the government, will believe it. Recently, a report of an extensive scientific study…
