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Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act Qualifies for the November 2008 Ballot
782,507 signatures gathered by hard working volunteers earned this initiative a place on the 2008 ballot! Much more work is needed to ensure that California voters pass this important proposition in November. Californians For Humane Farms is seeking volunteers to:
The news has been full of stories recently about the rising cost of food. But when it comes to most meat, milk, and eggs sold in the United States, consumers have paid more for years—they just didn’t know it.
According to a new Union of Concerned Scientists report, the true cost of meat and milk produced in massive CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) includes billions in unaccounted-for taxpayer dollars that pay for the economic, health, and environmental problems CAFOs create.
CAFOs are supported by misguided government policies. Meanwhile, modern, alternatives are already in practice today that can produce the quantity of food we need, often without government subsidies. These alternatives can safeguard our health while protecting the foundations of our food supply—like healthy soil and fresh water.
Please sign the UCS petition to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), asking him to end policies that give an unfair advantage to the polluting CAFO industry and to support modern alternatives instead.
Local Author's Book Featured in Veg News. Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Local Angela Elliot, contributor to Vegetarian Baby and Child Magazine, has had her book Alive in Five reviewd in this season's Veg News Magazine.
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler Sunday, January 27, 2008
A SEA change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store — something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn’t oil.
It’s meat.
Auction Yard Convicted of Animal Cruelty. Friday, February 16, 2007
For the last decade, accusations of animal abuse have been made against New Holland Sales Stable, one of the largest farmed-animal auctions on the East Coast.
Grazing the West Saturday, February 10, 2007
In an essay entitled "How the West was Eaten," author Jeffrey St. Clair tells us that most of the water in the West goes not to satiate the thirst of people but that of cows.
First Case of H5N1 Flu in U.K. Commercial Poultry Friday, February 9, 2007
The first documented case of the H5N1 avian flu in commercial poultry in England has occurred at a facility operated by Bernard Matthews, Europe's largest turkey producer.
Salmonella Outbreak in Sweden, Despite Claims Thursday, February 8, 2007
"Sweden has achieved efficient control of Salmonella, despite the industrialisation of animal production," the Swedish Poultry Meat Association states on its website.
New Mexico Cockfighting Ban Advances. Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Following a five-hour debate, the New Mexico Senate approved a ban on cockfighting by a 31-11 vote.
