Critter News

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

The Justice Department has opened investigations. Tags: eggs factory farm agribusiness. It's in the Wall Street Journal. Fresh-egg farmers acted together through a series of export shipments, organized by United Egg Producers, an industry cartel whose 250-plus members include virtually all of the nation's big egg producers.

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AnimalEquality.net

JULY 31, 2024

Animal Equality’s UK Executive Director–alongside award-winning photographer Aitor Garmendia–has uncovered distressing animal suffering within a UK pig facility known as Cross Farm.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2009

You can find out tonight by watching HBO's new documentary, "Death on a Factory Farm." Death on a Factory Farm" chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. Ever wonder how the animals you eat are treated before they become your dinner?

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AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Cows, pigs, and chickens suffer daily on factory farms, with abuse often ignored by authorities. Advocates say reforming the Mexican Constitution could change everything. Could this be a turning point…

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

And because that's his premise, he proceeds to investigate both factory farming and smaller operations that include grazing and allowing the animals to live a relatively natural life (after their unnatural beginning and let's not forget about their unnatural end). Which begs the question: What about sea animals?

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Enactment of the bill will bring about the first federal law relating to the treatment of chickens used for food, the first federal law relating to the treatment of animals while on factory farms, and the first farmed animal protection legislation in more than 30 years.

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AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For the first time in European Union (EU) history, a new role will focus entirely on animal protection. Hungarian politician Olivér Várhelyi has been nominated as the Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, pending approval by the European Parliament.

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Animal Equality

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Did you know the truth about factory farming was never meant to reach you? Behind closed doors, billions of animals endure conditions that would leave most people outraged. The system thrives on secrecy—but once the truth is out, there’s no turning back. Mother pigs spend their pregnancies in crates so small they can barely move.

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Animal Equality

JANUARY 7, 2025

These images are here to tell the story: At Nepal’s 2024 Gadhimai Festival—the world’s largest animal sacrifice—investigators revealed what walls, smog, and police bans tried to hide. Across these eight countries, Animal Equality’s advocacy brought the world closer to compassion last year.

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Animal Equality

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As an investigator, he’d walked blood-soaked slaughterhouses, seen animals crammed into metal boxes, and heard faint cries echoing down the slaughter line. Mike thought he’d seen it all. But nothing prepared him for that day. Newborn lambs huddled together, their tiny bodies trembling.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Have you taken the time to investigate this? Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? This sympathy can be a basis for revising one's moral principles so as to take animals into account. Perhaps the sympathetic impulse would be activated if people saw how their meat is produced.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. This is good stuff.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Animal Equality in Mexico is shaping the future for farmed animals with legislative reform. Advocates are working on two levels—reshaping the food system and plant-based options nationally, while strengthening farm rules locally. With rich emotional lives and unbreakable family bonds, farmed animals deserve to be protected.

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AnimalEquality.net

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

On September 5, 2024, the UK’s High Court granted Animal Equality permission to challenge the approval of the country’s first on-land salmon mega-farm. Despite warnings from experts, North East Lincolnshire Council approved the project in 2023.

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Animal Equality

JUNE 26, 2024

For over a decade, Animal Equality has been on a global mission to end the force-feeding of ducks and geese for foie gras. From the bustling streets of Brazil to the historic halls of the UK Parliament, Animal Equality is driving change for animals in Italy, Spain, Germany, Brazil, India, the US, and the UK.

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Animal Equality

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Calves starved to death, mothers torn from their newborns… Matteo Cupi, Animal Equality’s Vice President in Europe, witnessed it all inside an Italian mozzarella farm. Here’s how the global dairy industry operates–and why you deserve the truth.

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Animal Equality

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This year, the incredible dedication and passion of Animal Equality volunteers have driven monumental progress for animals across the globe. From changing laws and corporate policies to amplifying voices in protests and digital actions, your commitment has sparked a wave of change for millions of animals.

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AnimalEquality.net

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Between 2023 and 2024, Animal Equality investigators documented conditions inside a pig slaughterhouse in Cremona, Italy. Investigators captured footage of widespread violence against animals, much of it in violation of Italian animal protection laws. Veterinarian Enrico Moriconi, who reviewed the footage… Source

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

As reported in the AP story, two styles of Sean John jackets—one a hooded snorkel style, the other a classic version—were originally advertised as faux fur, but an investigation by the Humane Society of the United States [ HSUS ] found that the jackets were made from dog fur.

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AnimalEquality.net

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Committee has given the industry one year to present a plan addressing these issues Animal Equality’s investigation… Source Using evidence from Animal Equality, the report revealed widespread disease, lice outbreaks, and alarming death rates.

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AnimalEquality.net

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Investigators captured the following: Footage revealed approximately 1,500 buffaloes hacked to death in the… Source Animal Equality has released footage from the 2024 Gadhimai Festival in Southern Nepal, where thousands of animals were slaughtered in early December.

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Animal Equality

APRIL 1, 2025

A newborn calf lay tucked beside his or her mother, the world still quiet. Still safe. Then came the footsteps. The mother stood, tense and unmoving, eyes fixed on the man approaching. He lunged, grabbing the calf by the legs and dragging him or her across the floor. The mother followed, just a step behind.

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