Sentences with phrase «at factory farms»

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Ted Genoways at Mother Jones has an excellent cover story on the growing number of so - called «ag gag» laws that criminalize documenting animal abuse at factory farms.

Brooke Gladstone at On the Media had a good discussion with Will Potter from Green is the New Red about the so - called «Ag - Gag» laws that aim to censor and punish individuals that document or expose abuse at factory farms.

Ted Genoways at Mother Jones has an excellent cover story on the growing number of «ag gag» laws that criminalize documenting animal abuse at factory farms.

Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Herbert The Animal Legal Defense Fund, along with PETA, filed the nation's first lawsuit against ag gag legislation, taking Utah to court for infringing on the free speech rights of activists, investigators, and journalists by criminalizing undercover investigations at factory farms.

The petitions below cover a range of animal rights issues, from protesting unethical animal testing to protecting wildlife from exploitation; from preventing animal cruelty at factory farms to rescuing pets from abuse.

Because the conditions are so filthy and crowded at factory farms, the cows are routinely given antibiotics, which contribute to human antibiotic resistance.

We're going to make global climate change worse — we're never going to cut into the terrible practices that go on at factory farms where animals clearly suffer.

I am a vegetarian and also am horrified at factory farming and its horrors — Poor shelter animals need our compassion, dollars and resources to find them homes — I am positive that not all that could be done is not being done!!!

That is the very purpose of the measures dubbed as ag - gag bills — bills that criminalize taking pictures of animals on farms or the hiring of an animal advocate as a worker at a factory farm.

It is a satirical look at factory farming that is meant to educate players on the realities of the meat industry.

We also have turkeys saved from the ax, a scary look at a factory farmed turkey, and more.

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He set about maximizing line speeds at Case Farms, buying additional family - owned operations and implementing modern factory practices.

As a GFI Campus Fellow, your primary goal is to increase the number of students at your university that pursue entrepreneurship in plant - based and cellular agriculture alternatives to factory - farmed foods.

Recognize that men are enslaved on fishing boats to farm shrimp, kids are harvesting chocolate, and that factory workers in China are not being paid for the stuff you're buying on the cheap at your local discount store.

It was not until my daughter at the age of sixteen, after seeing a program on factory farming, declared that she would never eat meat again, that I began to become a practicing vegetarian.

Even if animals in factory - farms were anesthetized, and thus could not suffer, there would still be reason to protest at depriving them of their natural fulfillments.

While the move would be welcome if it were to stamp out factory farming and other brutal practices, or result in unethical producers being named and shamed, even «high welfare» meat comes at a cost to the environment.

(Dec. 15, 2010)-- The Humane Society of the United States has released findings from an undercover investigation that documented the inhumane treatment of female breeding pigs and piglets at a Virginia factory farm owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer.

And while the meat might be more expensive than, say, your average factory - farmed meat at Wal - mart, we have prioritized it in our budget and adjusted other spending accordingly.

Animals Australia has been at the forefront of national public awareness campaigns highlighting the suffering endured by mother pigs in sow stalls and farrowing crates in factory farms.

This distinctive position leverages its solid value chain integration from farm to factory gate, enabling the company to offer a reliable supply of nuts and nut ingredients at competitive prices all year round.

Biodynamic farms must also set aside at least 10 % of their land for «biodiversity» — a mandate that makes biodynamic much less attractive to so - called factory farms.

The effort also follows the May 2012 release of undercover footage taken by The HSUS at a pig factory farm that supplied animals to Tyson Foods.

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

Ian oversees the production on farms as well as in the factory at Brisbane.

Heritage turkeys are the traditional breeds of turkeys which have not been «industrialized» for efficient factory farm production at the expense of flavor and the well - being of the turkeys.

But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is fighting this claim in court, alleging that it is misleading or deceptive advertising as the birds in factory farms are confined at such high densities inside sheds that they can not roam around freely.

We want to help reduce food waste, not just at Tesco, but also on farms, in factories, and at home.

Pork sold at Walmart comes from factory farms where mother pigs are locked inside gestation crates.

And if you're sitting down eating right now, take a look at what's on your plate and ask yourself — was this raised in a factory or on a farm?

If May is able to pursue her current policy to its end, almost everything about what you eat will change, from the farm it comes from, to the factories it's produced in, to the price at the supermarket till.

And you know, what these folks say again, is «If the people that are buying meat out there in the world had any idea of the way in which meat is produced; if they had a look at, you know, inside a factory farm where animals are raised in their own feces and, you know, slaughtered and then ground up and so on.

Shimamura oversees a 25,000 - square - foot farm at the site of a former Sony microchip factory.

Also, most farmed fish are exposed to dose after dose of antibiotics to keep diseases and pests at bay in their crowded underwater pens, much in the way «factory farmed» land animals are drugged to help them cope with cramped, unsanitary conditions.

And even when the sicknesses and / or death from E. Coli occur from vegetables, this is usually caused by runoff from a factory corn - fed beef farm that contaminated produce at a downstream farm.

I began paying extra at farmer's markets for these items and could taste a difference right away, but the sticker shock of paying the real cost (as opposed to factory farm prices) took a little time to get used to.

So although I don't fully agree with veganism at least from a nutritional standpoint (moral arguments aside), I also don't agree with our current state of affairs of the majority of our food supply of factory farm raised animal products (at least here in the US, where the condition of the factory farm animals and nutritional quality of the food is horrendous).

Consumption of foods from factory farmed animals containing pharmaceutical residues could be another contributing factor to the estrogen / testosterone imbalance at the root of gynecomastia.

According to Dr. Jennifer Rooke — Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine, «Cattle no longer feed on grass and chickens do not peck in the dirt on factory farms.

In addition, grass fed beef contains a much better ratio of omega - 3 to omega - 6 fatty acids compared with typical grain - fed beef sold at most stores (which comes from factory feedlot farms notorious for unhealthy cattle and inferior nutrition in the beef compared to grass - fed beef.)

Just look at the recalls of fresh produce — it isn't intrinsic trouble with the plants, it's runoff from animal factory farms or cross-contamination from poor hygiene practices of the workers processing the plants.

Anyone can watch FORKS OVER KNIVES and FARM TO FRIDGE online to educate yourselves about how the food supply is killing people in epidemic proportions, and also the horrific cruelty to animals at ALL farms, not just factory farms.

To guarantee that the ingredients Gnosis uses are Raw, Vegan, Organic, and of the highest quality, I regularly return to my suppliers with increasingly in - depth questions, and put my hands in every stage of production at the farms and factories I visit to ensure the nutritional integrity that is the foundation of Gnosis.I continue to work with industry leaders to develop new and ever more effective ways to assure raw integrity, and I invite you to voice your concerns to merchants and their suppliers.

At the same time, I was reading books and movies about the cruelties that factory farm animals go through to get to my dinner plate — although not even the Alec Baldwin narrative on Meet your Meat could change my mind permanently.

Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, Eating Animals is an urgent, eye - opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming.

The leaderless initiative includes a legal defense fund to help working - class women - like cleaners, nurses and workers at farms, factories, restaurants and hotels - protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it.

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

They encounter gangsters and guns, strawberries and more strawberries, factory - farms and fishermen, eco-warriors living in trees and social activists, and even, briefly, Mr Mayevskyj (from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian), along they way they are cheated and defeated; but those who emerge at the end do so a little wiser; as does the reader.

At what point do you think awareness of factory farming will be sufficiently raised in the public eye?