Farm Animals

Top Ten State Victories of 2010

By on December 13, 2010 in Companion Animals, Farm Animals, Wildlife/Marine Mammals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Top Ten State Victories of 2010

We’ve had a strong year on animal protection in state legislatures, just the latest indicator of forward movement in the policy-making realm for our cause. This year, 97 new state laws and regulations were enacted to protect animals, and since 2005, it’s been 537 laws . . . 

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Reservations About the Animal Abuse Registry

By on December 3, 2010 in Companion Animals, Farm Animals with 2 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Reservations About the Animal Abuse Registry

A law recently passed in Suffolk County, New York to require people convicted of cruelty to animals to register with a publicly accessible website or face jail time and fines. This idea has surfaced in several other states this past year, including California, Rhode Island, . . . 

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Country’s Clucking About Cruelty of Cage Confinement, Food Safety Risks

By on November 18, 2010 in Farm Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Country’s Clucking About Cruelty of Cage Confinement, Food Safety Risks

A day after our press conferences in Washington, D.C. and Houston detailing the findings of our undercover exposé of Cal-Maine, the nation’s largest egg supplier, it’s obvious that the press and the public are coming to the subject with an elevated understanding of the connection . . . 

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Shocking, Unacceptable Conditions Revealed at Nation’s Largest Egg Producer

By on November 17, 2010 in Farm Animals, Investigations with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Shocking, Unacceptable Conditions Revealed at Nation’s Largest Egg Producer

An HSUS investigator has gone undercover again to take a behind-the-scenes look at the living conditions of laying hens confined in battery cages—in this case, at a facility run by Cal-Maine, the largest egg producer in the country with 26 million birds under its control. . . . 

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In Memory of Dr. Dean Wyatt: A Courageous Voice Against Cruelty

By on November 11, 2010 in Farm Animals with 1 Comment By Wayne Pacelle
In Memory of Dr. Dean Wyatt: A Courageous Voice Against Cruelty

Most of us have had the fortunate experience of meeting individuals, at one point or another in our lives, who demonstrated integrity and commitment of the highest order. For those of us at The HSUS who had the privilege of working with him, Dr. Dean Wyatt was such a person.

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An Open Letter to the Missouri Farm Bureau

By on November 10, 2010 in Companion Animals, Farm Animals, Wildlife/Marine Mammals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
An Open Letter to the Missouri Farm Bureau

Last week, Missouri voters approved Proposition B. In campaigning against the measure, the Missouri Farm Bureau leveled an array of false charges against Prop B and also against The Humane Society of the United States, which worked to pass Prop B. I write to address these charges and to set the record straight.

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“Hot in Kansas City” – And the Rest of Missouri

By on October 30, 2010 in Companion Animals, Farm Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
“Hot in Kansas City” – And the Rest of Missouri

Today, Betty White left a warm and positive phone message (listen here) with about a half million Missouri women voters in support of Prop B—a different kind of robocall, given that this campaign tool is so often used to convey harsh and dishonest information about . . . 

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Relief for Abused Calves: Remembering An Investigation and Those Behind It

By on October 25, 2010 in Farm Animals, Investigations with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Relief for Abused Calves: Remembering An Investigation and Those Behind It

This Saturday, Oct. 30, it will be one year since The HSUS’s investigation into the Bushway calf slaughter plant shuttered this Grand Isle, Vt. facility where so many baby cows suffered cruelty that can only be believed if one sees it on our video—extreme electrical . . . 

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A Number of Measures of Success

A Number of Measures of Success

Some weeks ago The HSUS submitted its Form 990, a financial filing required by the Internal Revenue Service to ensure transparency, good governance, and accountability. Today, we’re posting it on our website, as we do every year after it is submitted to the federal government. . . . 

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Third Quarter Blog Favorites

By on October 6, 2010 in Farm Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Third Quarter Blog Favorites

This quarter on the blog, chickens ruled the roost—from July through September the blog deemed most popular based on your clicks was the news that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation applying the animal welfare standards contained within California’s Proposition 2 to all shell (whole) eggs . . . 

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Cruelties Destined for Condemnation

By on September 27, 2010 in Farm Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Cruelties Destined for Condemnation

In a piece in Sunday’s Washington Post, Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah identified the cruelty of factory farming as one of those issues that future generations will condemn us for.

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Talk Back: Crushing Testimony

By on September 24, 2010 in Farm Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle

Last week The HSUS’s Nancy Perry testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing arguing for the enactment of legislation to crack down on the despicable animal crush video industry. These videos typically show scantily clad women or girls, often in high-heeled shoes, impaling, crushing, stomping . . . 

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