Animal Outlook pens a letter to the USDA requesting that the agency fine Superior Farms for violating a 2019 consent decree.
Investigator Series: Jailbreak
Compassion Over Killing’s brave investigators shine a light on the cruelties kept hidden behind the closed doors of animal agribusiness. COK investigations have resulted in animal cruelty charges, groundbreaking lawsuits, and even slaughterhouse shutdowns. To give you an idea of what our investigators experience, we’re publishing a series of blogs by former COK investigators. To stand with our investigators and …
Students Fighting Campus Slaughterhouse Funded by JBS
Time and again, COK’s investigations inside slaughterhouses uncover egregious abuse of animals, from the first look inside a US lamb slaughter operation, to high-speed horrors at a Hormel supplier. Soon, a new slaughterhouse could be built on a college campus. Yes, that’s right. It’s part of a so-called “ongoing educational program” planned for the Fort Collins campus of Colorado State University (CSU), …
5 Amazing Farm Animals Who Fought for Their Lives
The world was inspired by the story of Freddie, a young cow who courageously escaped a live meat market in Queens, NY — then went trotting about the city while passers-by posted photos to Instagram. Named for Queen’s (the band) frontman Freddie Mercury, the blessed bovine is now living the good life at New York’s Skylands Animal Sanctuary & Rescue. About a …
USDA: Halt High-Speed Slaughter Expansion
USDA: Halt high-speed slaughter expansion In an effort led by Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (CT) and Louise Slaughter (NY), a bi-partisan group of 60 members of congress signed a powerfully-worded letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack urging the federal agency to delay the potential expansion of HIMP, a dangerous reduced-inspection, high-speed pig slaughter pilot program. The USDA previously said that its decision would come …
New Investigation: Slaughterhouse Horrors for Hens
Behind nearly every “incredible edible” egg sold in grocery stores today is a hen so intensively confined inside a barren wire battery cage, she can barely even move. With just 67 square inches of floor space on which to live – about the size of an iPad – she can’t even flap her wings, let alone nest, perch, dust bathe, …