Congratulations to Viva and the Badgers Trust for successfully challenging the National Farmers Union and its advertisement placing sole blame on badgers for the spread of bovine tuberculosis. The Advertising Standards Authority ruled the wording, which included a cow lying … Continue reading
Reminiscent of Compassion Over Killing’s Truth in Labelling—“Eggs from Caged Hens” campaign, COmpassion In World Farming successfully persuades the Advertising Standard Authority to ban the British pig industry’s recent ad campaign, “Pigs are worth it.”
Nearly a thousand new charges have been filed in the state’s prosecution of alleged child labor violations at a kosher meatpacking plant in northeast Iowa. The 954 new charges were filed Jan. 16 against Jeffrey Heasley, a beef production supervisor … Continue reading
Germany’s federal environment agency has issued a strong advisory for people to return to prewar norms of eating meat only on special occasions and otherwise to model their diet on that of Mediterranean countries. Germans are among the highest meat … Continue reading
[British] Sainsbury’s has announced that from the 5 February it will no longer sell eggs from battery hens. When Compassion in World Farming awarded Sainsbury’s with a Good Egg Award in 2008 it was on the promise of this remarkable … Continue reading
Signaling that the Agriculture Committee will not be exclusively the domain of growers and food producers, new Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg on Tuesday gave the committee a new name, an expanded mission and a new chairman. The committee … Continue reading
