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Caged Hens: An Undercover Investigation Reveals Apparent Animal Cruelty at an Egg Farm

Last summer saw a rare détente between animal-rights advocates and industrial agriculture. The Humane Society of the U.S. — the largest animal-protection group in the country — and the farming trade group the United Egg Producers announced an agreement in July 2011 to work together to seek a new federal law that would require larger [...]

Questioning Industrial Food

This Friday environmental and public health groups will hold the first National Conference to End Factory Farming in Arlington, Virginia—a gathering which is pretty self-explanatory. Gene Baur heads the Farm Sanctuary, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting animal abuse on farms, sent in a piece outlining the goals of the conference, which I’ll excerpt below: