The big news of the week: Thanks to a surreal effort of hundreds of animal advocates in Massachusetts, we turned in the final signatures to hopefully guarantee placement on this November’s statewide ballot. If we’re on the ballot, the Bay State will become the epicenter of the national debate about factory farming—it’s on like Donkey Kong!
As we work to reduce farm animal suffering in Massachusetts, the fight to reduce the number of animals in factory farms and slaughter plants altogether continues. It was a crazy week in the tale of two nations, with news of China’s ambition to halve its meat consumption, while a US company that merely tweeted about the eco-benefits of meat reduction was bullied into retracting and apologizing.
Finally, you knew that laying hens are locked in physical cages, but did you know chickens raised for meat are locked in physiological cages? I offer thoughts on this in a new op-ed in the Savannah Morning News (in the largest poultry state in the nation).
Paul Shapiro
Vice President, Farm Animal Protection
The Humane Society of the United States
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P.S. Video of the week: Why’d the chicken cross the ocean?
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