Animal News You Can Use: Time for happier chickens!

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Another week, another major celeb asking Costco to
stop selling eggs from caged hens: read about Sia’s letter to Costco’s
CEO in this

CBS
article.

A notorious battery egg complex is under new management in New England. I offer some thoughts on what to do in a

Bangor Daily News op-ed
.

Speaking of New England, if you want to learn more
about the pending ballot measure in Massachusetts to help prevent the
worst farm animal cruelty, this

Boston Herald Radio interview
will be helpful. (And sign up to volunteer
for the effort
here!)

But of course, chickens are in need of help nationwide, as
TIME reports in this major piece out today.

Finally, if you’re trying to eat fewer chickens and
other animals, and aren’t sure what to eat instead, let HSUS’s Eddie
Garza guide you in this new
Dallas Voice interview.

P.S.
Video of the week
: BuzzFeed’s hysterical 90-second take on vegans.