The Melbourne Zoo in Australia has produced a short and powerful video on the devastation to orangutans caused by palm oil cultivation and a call to action for better labeling laws.
Palm oil is in more than 40% of the products on store shelves from food to household cleaning products.
While in North America, labeling laws require [...]
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Palm Oil: Ethical companies don’t hide their ingredients
Posted in food, palm oil, tagged endangered species, ingredient labeling, Malaysia, orangutans, palm oil, rainforest, vegetable oil on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amend building codes in Canada to protect farm animals from barn fires
Posted in farm animals, food, tagged building codes, factory farming, Farm Building Code of Canada, farming, hogs, pig farmers, pigs, pork on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
What Pork Producers Call Farming
Posted in food on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As we read about the bailout of pork producers with our tax dollars, it is time to review some points about this industry’s vile “farming” practices.
Links for further exploration have been provided for each point.
a) Atrocities against pigs as a daily practice and way of life through
factory farming practices such as tail docking and neutering [...]
Vegan cheese is just as inhumane as dairy cheese
Posted in climate change, food, palm oil, pesticides, tagged animal cruelty, climate change, deforestation, orangutans, palm oil, rainforest, vegan cheese, vegetable oil on June 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
A fabulous guest post from co-blogger Nothoney
That’s right, vegans. If you’re going ga-ga over the new vegan cheeses such as Teese and Daiya, you’re just as guilty of animal cruelty as if you were eating blocks of dairy cow cheese. Not to mention the negative effects on human health …
Vegan cheeses are mostly oil, which [...]
Furadan: Wildlife killing pesticide banned by the EPA being considered for ban in Canada
Posted in Canada, animal cruelty, endangered species, environment, food, health, pesticides, vanishing wildlife, tagged pesticides, birds, wildlife, lions, wildlife poisoning, Mara Triangle, Wildlife Direct, Carbofuran, Furadan, American Bird Conservancy, Canadian Government, EPA, pesticide ban, FMC Corporation on May 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last year we were all horrified to learn about lions in Kenya’s Mara Triangle with paralyzed limbs dying in agony from poisoning by a cheap American pesticide called Carbofuran (Furadan) produced by FMC Corporation.
I posted about this crisis on my old blog
A campaign was started through Wildlife Direct on the Stop Wildlife Poisoning blog, conferences [...]
Report on the “Heroes and Charlatans” in the World of Soy
Posted in farm animals, food, palm oil, tagged Cornucopia Institute, natural foods, organic, organic soybean, palm oil, Silk, soybean on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Don’t fall in the Swine Flu manure lagoon while forgetting all about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Posted in animal cruelty, farm animals, food, health, swine flu, tagged antibiotic resistant superbugs, factory farming, meat, MRSA, pigs, pork, superbugs, swine flu on May 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production in America: Industry has to Change
Posted in farm animals, food, health, swine flu, tagged factory farming, intensive hog operations, MRSA, pigs, pork, swine flu on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A pinch of plastic, a dash of disease, a marinade of waste runoff
Posted in environment, farm animals, food, swine flu, tagged animal feed, factory farming, farm animals, pig farms, pollution, superbugs on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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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