Animal News You Can Use: Fewer animals are dying for our dinners!

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Ryan Gosling laid a golden egg this week, sending a
letter to Costco urging the company to stop selling eggs from caged
hens. The story was covered by

hundreds of outlets
, including
ABC’s Nightline
.

Foster Farms was
exposed for a second time in one week
with a new exposé by Compassion Over Killing at one of its turkey hatcheries, revealing routine animal abuse.

As Americans continue to eat less meat, not everyone’s happy about it. And they’re

waging a war
on the new proposed dietary guidelines. The good news,
though, is that as a result of the continued decline in demand for meat,
the number of animals raised and killed for food in the US has dropped
by

400 million annually
.

P.S.
Video of the week
: Just how smart are cows? You be the judge. And fact: it’s
good for the world
for you to watch these videos!