It’s another week, and another major food company is making waves about farm animal mistreatment. This time, the largest U.S. foodservice company—Aramark—made a major announcement with HSUS regarding a series of sweeping animal welfare reforms in its supply chain.
McDonald’s isn’t doing so well though, and in fact it’s closing hundreds of locations. What might help the company out? I offer my thoughts in this Associated Press story.
If you’re a dinosaur fan, like I am, you’ll be psyched by this new discovery of an herbivorous relative of T-Rex.
Finally, this is perhaps the only time both “sane” and “Paul Shapiro” have gone in the same title of an article.
Paul Shapiro
Vice President, Farm Animal Protection
The Humane Society of the United States
Follow at http://twitter.com/pshapiro
P.S. Video of the week: What I’d give for my cat Calvin to be able to skateboard like this cat.
P.P.S. For an interesting look at the pace of various social movements’ progress in the U.S., this Bloomberg story and graphic is pretty fascinating.