Piglets Pounded Against Concrete: Depravity of the Pork Industry

Just when I thought I had learned the depth of depravity of the pork industry, I found this new piece of information:
from Twyla Francois of Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Farm Animals (CETFA)
and
posted on Youtube
“Millions of piglets are killed inhumanely each year in Canada by PACing – Pounding Against Concrete. Many survive the practice but [...]

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Amend building codes in Canada to protect farm animals from barn fires

The following is a MEDIA RELEASE from:
Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Farm Animals (CETFA)
Charred remains of mother pigs burned to death in gestation crates
Farm animals continue to die horrific deaths with no changes to the farm building code.
Toronto, August 24, 2009: Despite repeated calls to the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes to amend [...]

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Pork producers: Stop the Live-Burnings!

An Action Alert from Twyla Francois and the team at
Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Farm Animals (CETFA)
In just the last 20 months, nearly 80,000 animals have been burned alive in barn fires in Canada. News of barn fires have become a weekly event, each one killing thousands of animals.
Pig barns are the most affected with [...]

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What would it take to make pork eaters care?

I missed the deadline on an alert to recommend tougher fire building codes for Manitoba’s farm animal facilities but want to bring up the issue of fires in pig confinement operations (factory farms).

First, could pork eaters reading this look at this photo and think about the sow shown here spending her life imprisoned in this [...]

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Report on the “Heroes and Charlatans” in the World of Soy

Here is a fascinating and important report from The Cornucopia Institute on the natural and organic soy foods industry.
I had stopped drinking Silk long ago mainly due to palm oil being used in both their creamer and soy beverages plus had heard rumblings about associations with factory farm organic dairy.
Silk claims on its site it [...]

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Don’t fall in the Swine Flu manure lagoon while forgetting all about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

As the swine flu outbreak dominates the news, albeit irresponsibly reported by the mainstream media, let us not forget about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), that virulent superbug spawned in pig factory farms that kills more people in the USA every year than does AIDS.
You won’t read this about antibiotic resistance in your Saturday paper:
“An [...]

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Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production in America: Industry has to Change

In light of the (unaddressed by mainstream media and government) connections between factory farming and swine flu and other related issues, I am going to repeat a post from my old blog at ethicsandanimals.com.
New Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production in America: Industry has to Change (from May 2008)

The Pew Charitable Trusts and Johns [...]

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A pinch of plastic, a dash of disease, a marinade of waste runoff

My last post was about the evolution of antibiotic resistant superbugs through feeding drugs to farm animals.  I’d like to stay on the topic of health related issues around factory farming for a bit more so first check out the link below from the Union of Concerned Scientists about what farm animals are fed.
“They [...]

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Serving up disaster: Antibiotic use on farm animals

I’ve been following the factory farm superbug story mostly in relation to MRSA and pig confinement operations but did you know that according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. are fed to farm animals. That is estimated to be more than four times the amount [...]

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Focus on Food: Why eating like an average American isn’t a good plan

This is an excellent article from the Christian Science Monitor analyzing the current food commodities crisis and offering evidence that meat guzzling isn’t going to work to feed the planet.
But reaching the average North American with this message continues to be challenging. Worrying about how one’s lifestyle might affect the poor in other countries, or [...]

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