The last two episodes of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” showed in chilling and vivid detail how abuses in animal agribusiness cause animal suffering and environmental devastation as well as human illness, injury, and death.
Emergency Legal Petition Filed with USDA to End Cruel Farm “Depopulation” Methods
Some of the cruelest depopulation methods, like ventilation shutdown, can leave animals suffering for many hours before they suffocate.
COK & Coalition Oppose Chicken Industry’s Dangerous Plan to Increase Line Speeds
Compassion Over Killing (COK) has voiced grave concerns to the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) over the chicken industry’s proposal to increase already dangerously fast slaughter line speeds and urged thousands of supporters to submit comments to the federal agency. Today, along with a coalition of animal welfare, food and consumer safety, and worker rights organizations, we’ve announced that more …