TAG: animal cruelty

How Inorganic Arsenic Accumulates In The Meat of Chicken Then Sold At Your Grocery Retailer

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times Poultry has become one of the most contaminated sources of meat available to humans, particularly due to approved arsenic-based additives which 80% of all chickens consume in their daily diet. Until recently, chicken producers would routinely supplement poultry feed with a growth-promoting arsenical drug called roxarsone, which helps give

The United States of Progesterone: What’s Really in Your Chicken Sandwich?

Richard Console Jr., Guest Waking Times The meat we eat is a mishmash of the political, practical, economic, and spiritual. Our taboos about protein vary by geography, even by household. Some eat pork, some don’t. Others serve camel as a delicacy – a tradition that would make many Americans faint from the cultural shock. We

Dolphins Gain Unprecedented Protection in India

Deutsche Welle Waking Times India has officially recognized dolphins as non-human persons, whose rights to life and liberty must be respected. Dolphin parks that were being built across the country will instead be shut down. India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has advised state governments to ban dolphinariums and other commercial entertainment that involves the

Duke Professor Suggests Simple Solution to Counter “Ag-Gag” Laws

Waking Times The old maxim that if you knew how sausage was made you would never eat it has been highlighted by many undercover videos taken by employees of factory farming operations and activists alike.In response, the industry has increasingly lobbied for “Ag-Gag” laws that criminalize whistleblowing and undercover investigations, essentially rendering animal cruelty completely invisible. Arguably,

The New Slavery: Pigs are Tigers and Farmers are Felons

Caleb Hart, Contributing Writer Waking Times  In “A Critical Mass for Real Food,” Anim Steel began with “The old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, 500 years in the making.” The idea that a slave mentality is still woven into production of food showed up as well

Why I Will Continue to Attempt Veganism Until I’m Good At It

Kate, Guest Writer Waking Times This is an HONEST and STRAIGHTFORWARD post about my journey to let my actions reflect my viewpoints. Did you know that Alicia Silverstone wrote a book on veganism and used to fall off the wagon for cheese? That’s ok Alicia. I still love you AND your book. And I don’t care that

Factory Farms Produce 100 Times More Waste than U.S. Population

Mike Barrett Waking Times If you thought you were a major contributor to pollution, just wait until you hear this. Factory farms produce 100 times more waste than every single person in the United States combined. The amount of waste produced by these factories is in such mass quantities that it is virtually impossible to

Activism Rescues Wild Danube Horses Sold for Meat (Video)

This is the drama of the free horses from Letea, saved in the last moment with the efforts of thousands of animal lovers. Today they are free again, and due to the effective mediation by FOUR PAWS, all wild horses from Letea now have a real chance of living free and wild again.


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