Podcasts about slaughterhouses

   On this show we discuss Disrupt Land Forces, the coalition of community groups who created a week long festival of resistance bringing diverse actionists and tactics into the joined struggle against the arms trade.   Land Forces is the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere, and it was held at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre in Naarm/Melbourne in September 2024. Protestors were met with excessive use of force by police including the use of OC spray, rubber bullets, flash-bangs, physical violence and riding horses into the crowd resulting in injuries.    Links to the event and media discussed on the show:  Disrupt Land Forces website https://disruptlandforces.org/  3CR's coverage of Disrupt Land Forces 2024 https://www.3cr.org.au/dlf2024  Channel 7 news coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch/UIJ_Dpjv3S4  Melbourne Activiist Legal Support (MALS) Media Statement: Grossly excessive policing of protestors likely infringed on human rights https://mals.au/2024/09/11/media-statement-grossly-excessive-policing-of-protesters-likely-infringed-on-human-rights/    Other topics and links:  Wild Country Farm Sanctuary (Texas, USA) Instagram's post: Gaza and the Price of Silience: Selective Compassion Exposing the Colonizer Mindset in Animal Rights Advocacy  https://www.instagram.com/p/C_y7GafJ1X3/?igsh=MWhxb3h2MW0yOGJpZw== Total Liberation Records Nights Out: Standing up to Slaughterhouses (contains info on the 269 Liberation Animale benefit compilation and some Bandcamp codes) https://www.instagram.com/p/C_2YoESCGRI/?igsh=MW5vaTExbTZyM3F5bQ== Banksy's animal series removed by London zoo https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/18/final-artwork-in-banksy-animal-series-removed-by-london-zoo  New research on vegan diets for dogs and the associated benefits from an Australian study by Dr Andrew Knight https://www.9news.com.au/national/vegan-diets-actually-good-for-dogs-australian-study-finds/e8255b5d-fb4d-40c0-a86b-5dff32d29f12   Veterinarian Andrew Knight's website on vegan pets: https://sustainablepetfood.info/     Music:     Verdalet and Crowns of Esper from Suldusk's album Anthesis.     Animal in Man by Dead Prez.        Thank you for listening to Freedom of Species. We welcome your feedback. Please email us at freedomofspecies@gmail.com  

Imagine using young teenagers in a slaughterhouse to clean dangerous machinery. That's what a sanitation company was doing until discovered and stopped by a team from the labor department. The group is now a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. From the Wage and Hour Division, regional enforcement coordinator Shannon Rebolledo, and planning reporting coordinator Justin Uphold. https://servicetoamericamedals.org/honorees/nancy-alcantara-shannon-rebolledo-and-justin-uphold/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Labor Department is investigating Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms after reporting from The New York Times found that migrant children had been working hazardous overnight shifts. How have minors been able to work some of most dangerous jobs in this country? We’ll also get the latest on the Kaiser Permanente strike — believed to be the biggest health care industry strike in U.S. history.

The Labor Department is investigating Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms after reporting from The New York Times found that migrant children had been working hazardous overnight shifts. How have minors been able to work some of most dangerous jobs in this country? We’ll also get the latest on the Kaiser Permanente strike — believed to be the biggest health care industry strike in U.S. history.

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Wednesday May 10, 2023 Children Cleaning Slaughterhouses

Slaughterhouses, construction sites, factories. A Times investigation has found that migrant children have been thrust into jobs in some of the most demanding workplaces in the United States.How did this crisis in child labor develop? And now that it has been exposed, what is being done to tackle the problem?Guest: Hannah Dreier, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.Background reading: The shadow work force of migrant children extends across industries in every state, flouting labor laws that have been in place for nearly a century.As lawmakers clamor for action, federal and state enforcement agencies have begun a crackdown on companies that employ children.The Biden administration has announced a wide crackdown on the labor exploitation of migrant children around the United States.For more information on today's episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

Listen to Erika L. Sanchez and the No Chingues crew talk about all of the day's chingaderas: The Hot Cheeto War Fractures The Black and Brown Coalition Migrant Kids Cleaning Slaughterhouses (Because US Capitalism Has Always Hated BIPOC Kids) Spanish Hating Karens Teenage Girls In Crisis Southside vs. The Bear (Which Chicago Show Reigns Supreme?) The Italian Beef Brawl of '23 (To dip or not to dip... that is the stupid question) The 1619 Project We have no idea what we're doing... but we're keeping it moving with the unearned confidence of a mediocre White man! ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Listen, subscribe, share, and leave a five star review! (or go to hell). Follow us on Twitter , TikTok , Instagram --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nochingues/message

In this Weekly Roundup we cover Don Lemon in hot water at CNN over sexist comments, AI Bosses being used to fire employees, Child Labor discovered at slaughterhouses in America, Bernie Sanders calls out Corporate Media on air, our BP Partner Spencer explains How Walmart and Amazon crushed small business, Buttigieg gets upset when a reporter asks if he is going to East Palestine, and Louis DeAngelis from StatusCoup explains from the ground in East Palestine, Ohio how the issue of Water Tests has become endangered by corporate corruption.To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this Weekly Roundup we cover Don Lemon in hot water at CNN over sexist comments, AI Bosses being used to fire employees, Child Labor discovered at slaughterhouses in America, Bernie Sanders calls out Corporate Media on air, our BP Partner Spencer explains How Walmart and Amazon crushed small business, Buttigieg gets upset when a reporter asks if he is going to East Palestine, and Louis DeAngelis from StatusCoup explains from the ground in East Palestine, Ohio how the issue of Water Tests has become endangered by corporate corruption. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl   Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

According to federal authorities, over 100 children were found to be illegally working at a number of slaughterhouses across the US. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mo has worked with organisations to enter many slaughterhouses and "lock on" causing disruption to their operation. She began advocating for animals soon after going vegan twelve years ago. Mo knew she needed to drive change, so started by holding a sign on the side of the Bridge to Brisbane event. In 2016, Mo's friend invited her to be part of Eggs Exposed, a "lock on" inside an egg hatchery and slaughterhouse for male chicks. Mo and the other activists chained themselves to the conveyor belt and managed to rescue 150 chicks. Mo has since been involved in Ditch Dairy, Luvaduck and Dominion Anniversary (Carey brothers abattoir) actions. As a result of her involvement, Mo has received death threats and been raided by police. In this episode, Mo shares her experience inside slaughterhouses and the importance of drawing public attention to the abhorrent cruelty inside these facilities. https://www.facebook.com/MooMoo.orrEggs Exposed  Footage https://www.farmtransparency.org/campaigns.php?article=eggs-exposedLockon  https://vimeo.com/176329555?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=14443181 Ditch Dairyhttps://vimeo.com/animallibqld/ditchdairyCarey Bros Slaughterhouse - Dominion National Day of Actionhttps://www.farmtransparency.org/campaigns/carey-bros-abattoir

We discuss the child labor issues in a JBS meat packing plant in the United States.  Also we talk about the the FDA's recent approval of the sale of lab grown chicken in the US.  

Today on the PBN Podcast, we are joined by two special guests – Nicola Harris & Anita Krajnc of Plant Based Treaty, an international movement and grassroots campaign designed to put food systems at the forefront of combating the climate crisis. Anita Krajnc is co-founder of Toronto Pig Save and the global Animal Save Movement. The groups bear witness to animals at slaughterhouses and are dedicated to promoting an equitable, eco-friendly vegan vision for the world through grassroots activism. She has participated in numerous campaigns and initiatives such as the Great Bear Rainforest Campaign where she met environmental activist Tzeporah Berman, who now chairs the Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty. Anita received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and she has also taught university courses on social movement strategies. With over 20 years experience in pressure campaigning in the UK, Nicola Harris serves as Plant Based Treaty's Director of Communications. She studied Psychology and Computing at Bournemouth University. This laid the foundation for learning how to apply our knowledge of human memory and information processing in communication, copywriting and media strategies. Nicola coordinates the Plant Based Treaty's online activity and digital campaigns, ensuring that their work has maximum reach and impact. 00:00:00 An introduction to Nicola Harris & Anita Krajnc 00:03:00 The start of Nicola and Anita's commitment to veganism 00:07:00 How Nicola and Anita came to work together 00:09:32 Animal Save Movement: The principles and ideas behind the global network 00:13:35 Examining the positive impacts of bearing witness 00:17:30 How has bearing witness impacted Nicola and Anita's experience as a vegan advocate? 00:21:00 The most effective ways in which we can advocate without showing too much graphic detail of animal suffering 00:27:00 How The Plant Based Treaty began 00:32:00 The most surprising things that Nicola has noticed during the Plant Based Treaty journey 00:33:45 The key things that people need to know about our food system and how it impacts climate breakdown 00:38:10 How can we fight apathy? 00:40:00 What needs to be done to address the harmful effects of animal agriculture? 00:45:45 Nicola Harris on becoming the victim of state repression and being imprisoned during her fight for animal welfare 00:51:00 Anita Krajnc on the importance of Gandhi's teachings 00:56:30 The future of the Plant Based Treaty campaigns 01:01:50 Stranded on a desert island

Bravo Packing: The dirty business of pet food slaughterhouses by Erin Wing at AnimalOutlook.org. Original post: https://animaloutlook.org/bravo-packing-the-dirty-business-of-pet-food-slaughterhouses/  Related Episodes: 193, 199, 200, 201, 211, 233, 217 Animal Outlook is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal advocacy organization based in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA. Their mission: Working today to build a better tomorrow for all animals. We're strategically challenging the status quo of animal agribusiness through undercover investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and empowering everyone to choose vegan.   How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop  Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #Plantbased #veganpodcast #plantbasedpodcast #plantbasedbriefing #animaloutlook #animalcruelty #horsemeat #dogfood #dogs #zoos #salmonella #petfood #slaughterhouses #Listeriamonocytogenes #Pentobarbital #Phenytoin #undercoverinvestigation #fda #exoticanimals #exoticanimalfood #rawdogfood    

Would you hold a vigil for the animals solo? Sandra Kyle is an award winning activist from New Zealand who does just that, holding a vigil for the animals at least once a week, rain or shine and often alone. Also known as the singing vegan, Sandra has found her own way of bringing a small amount of comfort to the animals she bears witness to. With millions of animals being killed everyday it is Sandra's goal to see an end to animal slaughter and closing of all slaughterhouses by 2025. Join us as we talk with Sandra and learn what it is like to be there for the animals day in, day out.

Hey everyone This is a bit of a heavy episode. In this episode, I discuss what happens to humans who work in slaughterhouses and meat packaging plants. Spoiler: it is not good. Here is a link to all the articles I reference and read from in the episode; Amputations https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/05/amputations-serious-injuries-us-meat-industry-plant#:~:text=Records%20compiled%20by%20the%20Occupational,or%20loss%20of%20an%20eye%E2%80%9D Legal https://www.schmidtlaw.com/coronavirus-meat-packing-plant-lawsuit/ Mental Health and meat https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380211030243#:~:text=Staff%20with%20the%20job%20role,other%20roles%20in%20the%20slaughterhouse. Covid in American meat packaging https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/essentials-meatpeacking-coronavirus/611437/ Why immigrants in the meat industry https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trumps-invasion-was-a-corporate-recruitment-drive/596230/ Statistics on workers https://www.epi.org/blog/meat-and-poultry-worker-demographics/ Teresa's story https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/11/489468205/working-the-chain-slaughterhouse-workers-face-lifelong-injuries Cargill Plant https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/what-cargill-workers-want Some vegan resources that may be of interest to you; Ed Winters (Earthling Ed) on the Rich Roll Podcast. In it they do mention the issues Slaughterhouse Workers face as well as a load of other things of importance to vegans: https://www.richroll.com/podcast/ed-winters-670/ Earthling Ed's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EarthlingEdChannel Go Vegan 30 day challenge: https://www.veganeasy.org/30-day-challenge/30-day-menu/ Nutrition Facts.org: https://nutritionfacts.org/ Goji Man: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8zKmTVcs5s3IIR2DVlxfzA Milked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCwpsMtmMhM Trigger warning this is a documentary about animal agriculture Dominion: https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch Trigger warning this is also a documentary about animal agriculture If you want to get in touch with me; Email: corydyck1@gmail.com Instagram: Cooking_with_Cory

Piper Hoffman, Senior Director of Legal Advocacy at Animal Outlook joins Mark Thompson to explain what she is doing to build a better tomorrow for all animals, focusing on the dangers and cruelty of animal transport to slaughterhouses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I grew up terrified of water shortages.Every summer, the newspapers and radio blared the dire warnings:We're in a crisis.We're running out of water.Our aquifer is nearly dry.Take shorter showers.Wash your dishes by hand.Only drink what you need.Watering your lawn is absolutely forbidden.I never once took a shower that wasn't rushed.Baths were exclusively for special occasions.(My dad, in an attempt to save money, did nothing to assuage my fears.)But it turns out the whole water-shaming gambit was a scam.While 100,000 tax-paying citizens scrimped and saved on water, Nestlé was stealing 976 million liters from our city's aquifer each year.When their contract came up for renewal, I put in a bid of $4.00 per million liters, a whopping 7.8% more than the $3.71 per million liters Nestlé was paying to drain our town dry, but our corrupt government turned me down.Nestlé now legally takes 1.3 billion liters per year just from my town, and water-shaming the public continues.There's a stretch of highway in Port Talbot, Wales, that makes me furious.The speed limit drops from 70MPH to 50MPH.It's enforced with dozens of cameras that calculate your average speed and automatically mails an outrageous fine to your house if you go over.Because of the drop in speed, traffic backs up for miles. It takes at least twenty minutes to slog through, every time.Which gives you enough time to read the mass-shaming roadside signs:Pollution kills.Slow down, save lives.Speeding causes cancer.Poor air quality kills, reduce your speed.But being stuck in traffic also gives you time to look around at the city you're supposedly helping to save from horrible respiratory diseases.It's covered in smokestacks.There's no other way to say it: Port Talbot is a Shittsburg, a refinery town that enriches a few corporate shareholders and causes thousands of deaths each year due to heart disease, lung cancer, and asthma.In fact, it's the most polluted place in the United Kingdom.But, rather than fining, regulating, or shutting down the corporations that are spewing the vast majority of the poisons that are literally murdering people, Britain pollution-shames its drivers and fines tens of thousands of middle-class drivers each year for not “doing their part.”My astute readers will know exactly where I'm going with thisThe sociopaths who run the government think it's time that the masses no longer deserve to eat meat.And there's an easy way to keep the bottom half from eating meat while enriching the anti-social elites who run the cartel:Just tax it out of our budget range.Beef prices are already up 50% since last year.Most people already can't afford filet mignon — if ground beef goes to $40/pound, almost everyone I know will save tacos for their birthday. Pretty soon, beef will be the next caviar or champagne.And in the meantime, they'll weaponize our honor-shame culture to shame us into avoiding meat.Yes, we absolutely need to lower greenhouse gas emissions. But after centuries of poisoning us for profit, corporations now want us to make lifestyle changes so they can continue to turn a profit from emitting greenhouse gases.But we know what they also know:Meat isn't the problemIn America, agriculture makes up just 10% of greenhouse gas emissions:Globally, the picture seems a bit worse at first…But that's only until you read the fine print:So, animals are responsible for somewhere in the ballpark of 19.2% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Even without any offsets, it's still less than a quarter of the total.In other words: The overwhelming majority of GHGs are caused by transport, industry, and power/heat production.(And animals aren't farting nitrous oxide, CFCs, and all the other lethal poisons that we should be really worried about.)Just take a look at the leading emitter of each greenhouse gas:Notice what's not on the leading source for any single greenhouse gas?Animals.They simply aren't the main problem. (And even for the one GHG that cows emit the second most, there are tons of companies working on methane capture — I've seen two projects in action myself.)But instead of going after the corporations that are literally murdering hundreds of thousands of people each year, what do corporate-controlled governments do?Meat-shame us like it's our fault.George Monbiot rightly calls this micro-consumerist bollocks:“Tiny issues such as plastic straws and coffee cups, rather than the huge structural forces driving us towards catastrophe. We are obsessed with plastic bags. We believe we're doing the world a favour by buying tote bags instead, though, on one estimate, the environmental impact of producing an organic cotton tote bag is equivalent to that of 20,000 plastic ones.”If only we'd stop watering our lawns… driving so fast… and eating hamburgers?Transport: Could easily go all-electric.Industry: Could easily go all-electric.Power/heat production: Could easily go geothermal and hydro and tidal.But these are three of the strongest lobby-bribing groups in the world.Heck, Chevron would rather send people to prison than pay fines they legally owe for poisoning tens of thousands of people.Obviously, they'll keep polluting until the moment we put them out of business.Corporations could transition to 100% renewables within a year if they chose to re-allocate, but they'd rather do the thing we tell children not to do:Bully the weak.I call bull$#!tLiteral bull$#t is what keeps our soil alive.For thousands of years, hundreds of millions of ruminants sustainably roamed the plains of North America and Europe and Asia, fertilizing the soil and supplying homo sapiens with unlimited amounts of life-giving protein and fat.If the market for ruminants is systematically destroyed, it's not like the government is going to let all the Angus and Plains Bison and Longhorns just go wild and re-populate the plains.Once ruminant populations are decimated, they'll become sideshows in zoos, museums, and circuses.In other words, the #1 creator of natural soil on planet earth will simply cease to exist……leaving us more reliant on AgTech companies to produce synthetic soils and fertilizers to keep our desperate dirt producing food for a 10+ billion person world.Getting rid of meat animals is quite literally anti-human, anti-nature, and anti-future.We need way more bull$#!t, not less.There are good reasons to go vegetarian or vegan, to be sure.It's “more humane”Some people argue that it's cruel to slaughter animals to eat. I agree — in fact, after helping an organic farmer friend kill a bunch of Christmas turkeys for his clients, I went vegetarian for a whole year.But do you know what's even worse than quickly and instantly killing turkeys in an abattoir? When a coyote or fox or wolf or rat shreds one to pieces in the wild.Humans are undeniably cruel to each other, but we're nicer to animals than anything they encounter in nature.Just Google “cheetah attacks antelope” or “crocodile devours wildebeest.”Can we do better than the current monopoly model? Absolutely. Slaughterhouses are horrible. We need to return to the ancient ways of natural, sustainable meat harvesting.It's “healthier”Healthwise, there are certainly benefits to going veg/vegan versus the Standard American Diet (SAD.)But that's also true for keto, paleo, and carnivore diets. Pretty much anything beats corporate-created sugar-filled American “food.”And the longest-lived people in the world still eat meat, so that rules out the longevity argument.It's “cleaner”To be clear, modern mass-scale beef farming is horrible for the environment.Eating two feedlot burgers per week for a year creates as much greenhouse gas as heating a house for three months. Plus all the chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and deforestation are having disastrous consequences for the environment. Modern monopoly beef is bad.Consumers have demanded cheap meat, and farmers have gone to desperate measures to stay in business, which is why the Midwest is littered with horrendous mega-feedlots.But remember, homo sapiens once ate meat sustainably and ecologically for millennia.The corporatist monopolies who control BigAg are a serious problem, and there is room for lots of innovation — and returning to the ancient ways. To their credit, beef farmers globally have committed to cutting their environmental impact by 30% within eight years, which is way better than the fossil fuel industry. But ruminants aren't the ultimate problem — humans are.If we drew down the human population to a reasonable figure, and returned animals to wildland, we could eat meat sustainably forever. I respect vegetarian and vegan views and even applaud them (my sister, after all, has been a vegetarian for nearly twenty years), but that's not the point of the article-- it's not to make a judgment about the morality/immorality of eating meat or even the environmental sustainability of meat in an overpopulated world, but simple to question the financial motives behind the coercive transition. My concern is always about corporate corruption. And I see lots of it here.We need to get back to carbon-negative, soil-positive, regenerative, natural, sustainable, family-stewarded, wild meat protein production.It's not the cow, it's the how.Getting to (actual) sustainabilitySome people put forward the extremely weak argument that if everyone in the developing world ate as much meat as Westerners do, it wouldn't be sustainable.And that's absolutely true.But is that meat's fault?As history has clearly proven, eating meat is absolutely sustainable — it's the human population that's grown unsustainable.Remember: humans have eaten meat sustainably since the beginning of time.What changed: animals, or us?The real fix to the “unsustainable meat crisis” is a massive draw-down of homo sapiens, not cows.Instead of taxing beef, why not stop subsidizing childbirth?Why not incentivize having less kids?Why not streamline and incentivize fostering and adoption?No, I'm not talking about an idiotic one-child policy, force sterilizations, or any of that nonsense.People can do what they want and have as many kids as they want — so long as the rest of us don't have to pay for it.And we should definitely re-direct all that meat-shaming toward having thoughtful conversations about a.) overpopulation and b.) the real poisoners of the planet.So why are we ACTUALLY meat-shaming the masses?“I think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.” — Bill Gates (who emits 107X more carbon emissions than the average person)Cicero and the Romans asked a good question:“Cui bono?”Who profits?There are two leading contenders:1. Today's pollutersBanning meat isn't about “saving the planet” any more than my hometown cared about saving water or the UK cares about the health of people in Port Talbot — it's all about allowing the bona fide criminals to continue to pollute for a profit.Making meat unaffordable for the masses buys polluters a little more time to poison us into oblivion for short-term profits.2. Tomorrow's food manufacturersIf you follow the money, you soon realize that all this meat-shaming (including most of the popular anti-meat documentaries) are actually just another corporate ruse to conjure up a market for vegan products:Consider:Beyond Meat is already a $6 billion company, and its largest investor is Al Gore's Kleiner-Perkins.Impossible Foods is aiming for a $7 billion valuation, backed by Serena Williams.Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson are all backing a new vegan meat startup.Sadly, “saving the planet” has become a trojan horse for new industries to gain protein market share.The natural meat industry is far from perfect, and we would do well to ban feedlots and smash meat monopolies like Tyson and Cargill while supporting the family farm like never before, but getting rid of hundreds of millions of soil-producing animals will have disastrous long-term consequences for planet earth.Oh, and also jobs.The American meat industry alone contains more than 5.4 million jobs — synthetic vegan “food,” on the other hand, is already being mass-produced in automated factories.Trust natureCall me old-fashioned, but I don't want to eat factory-engineered synthetic foods made by corporations with massive conflicts of interest.And don't tell me beef can't be sustainable.I get my grass-fed beef from the multi-generational farm beside my wife's office, from animals reared on commons land that has been sustainably feeding cows and humans for at least 5,000 years.It takes a galling amount of hubris to think that indoor-manufactured factory vegan “food” is better than nature's way, and that cows are the problem when clearly it's humans that are overpopulated.The historic facts are undeniable: Homo sapiens adapted to natural, outdoor, organic food over an untold number of generations, and I don't for a second buy the notion that tomorrow's fake factory foods won't have dire outcomes for our fragile species.All this false food is and will lead to further systemic malnutrition — which is, of course, perfectly acceptable to private medicine, Big Pharma, and the politicians they sponsor.We need to trust nature again, not “the market.”There is zero doubt in my mind that weaning homo sapiens off of the traditional protein sources that have sustainably sustained our species for millennia in favor of factory-created synthetic foods will not be positive for the long-term wellbeing of our global family.But hey, at least another billionaire will get rich. 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Species Unite will be back with a brand new season next Thursday the 28th. Until then, we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Josh Balk. “The time to begin phasing out the intensive confinement systems in which we raise billions of animals is now. We need to accelerate society's direction of reducing demand for meat from animal factory farms and shift instead to more of an emphasis on healthier — and safer — plant-based foods. As our population grows, plant-based foods are also more sustainable and affordable for societies globally. Unless we — especially legislators and the food industry — make changes immediately, the concerning practices in animal agribusiness will remain. Only in transforming our food system can we eliminate the tinderbox ready to explode in our country. We can't afford to wait.” - Josh Balk and Dr. Shivam Yoshi, Pandemic on Our Plates Social distancing is the key to slowing the spread of COVID-19. We know this. It has worked and is still working. But, we also know that in this unsettling time, a time where we are fully aware that staying apart does indeed save lives, just the opposite is taking place at factory farms and meat processing plants all across America. Slaughterhouses are being forced to stay open and their workers must remain in close proximity to one another to be able to get their jobs done. And, they are getting sick and they are dying. And, on factory farms, billions of animals are “living” in cramped, filthy, overcrowded spaces with almost no room to move their antibiotic-fueled bodies - conditions that are creating a perfect storm for the next zoonotic disease to emerge and spread. This threat is nothing new, as diseases have already come from factory farms - we've just gotten lucky in terms of their spread. But the clock is ticking. Josh Balk has been a global leader in animal protection for the past 20 years. He is the Vice President of Farm Animal Protection for the Humane Society of the United States, and he's the co-founder of plant-based, food manufacturing company, JUST, as in JUST Mayo and my favorite invention of the 21st century, JUST Egg. Josh has spent a couple of decades focusing on and fighting against extreme confinement on America's factory farms: confinement practices like cramming many chickens into small battery cages for their entire lives, and days old calves in tiny veal crates where they can barely move, and keeping mother pigs in gestation crates (small metal cages that fit around their bodies like steel coffins). These are some of the cruelest practices on the planet and they are the status quo at factory farms in most American states. Josh and his team have scored huge victories on changing animal welfare policies at some of the world's largest companies and by changing legislation in many states. But there's still a long way and a lot of states to go. And, there are still billions of animals suffering. And, right now, while we are in the midst of a public health crisis that started because of how we treat animals, we need to demand that our food industry change; otherwise we're setting ourselves up for a much larger crisis. Josh is a hero and a world changer, and many humans and millions of animals are lucky to have this guy in their corner.

Over the course of the last two centuries, the American slaughterhouse has been carefully designed to function as a site of legal exception, where violence against both animals and workers—many of whom are immigrants and people of color—is hidden from the public's gaze, while being rendered licit. In today's episode of Interactions, we hear from Ph.D. candidate Joanna Smith of UNC Chapel Hill as she examines how slaughterhouses function much like a sacred spaces. They are hidden from sight. They maintain exceptional status to the law. And they are a place where violence against both animals and workers proliferates--a violence that now includes the spread of COVID-19. The changes made by the U.S. government that allowed slaughterhouses to both stay open during outbreaks and to opt out of health guidelines are just one example of slaughterhouses being an exception to the rule. But it's an exception that has had deadly consequences. To date, thousands of slaughterhouse workers have contracted COVID-19. Over two hundred have died. Read the original article https://canopyforum.org/2020/10/02/slaughterhouses-as-sites-of-exception/ (here). https://cslr.law.emory.edu/scholarship/cslrbooks2016-2021.pdf (Browse) our book brochure.

We've been talking to reporter Darragh MacIntyre about the investigation.

Place your hands over your chest and shift your focus to your heart. Can you hear me now? I've been trying to evaluate. But the truth is, I never needed to understand. The way you choose to move belongs entirely to you. I love the way that I am. I love my body like nobody could ever love anybody. She is mine. She is strong! We are aching to move on. Her love for me has no boundaries or sense of time. We create kingdoms, then kingdoms come our way. Look outside your window. What do you see? Do you see something outside of yourself? Do you see your body? Do you see the enclosure? The irony of your supposed free will is your current state of affairs. Humans are the newest feed and the livestock is glumly awaiting slaughter. The greatest source of energy has been found and surrounded from end to end. Properly fed. Silently the executioner begs for a new profession. The feeding begins. You hear a story. You are told what is to be eaten. You don't ask why. You sit and wait for your turn to be eaten alive. Slaughterhouses are archaic by design, too much left out in the open, too much to explain. Feeding on human energy doesn't require bloodshed anymore. A dead human is much more productive if it can keep walking, an artistic display of modern performance, their bodies a monument of sacrifice and self-destruction. Their voices a weapon, a device for tracking, with every word of the English language the walls are rising. They trap the remaining life. They trick their own kind. They call it love. But they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. And that word has never had a word to describe itself. That word is only a sound. I can spell it out in distant noises. But they are lost without hope, what good is my mouth? They search frantically for the life that was stolen. They settle their eyes on innocence. It smells delicious. It feels like living. They turn me inside out. When they kill, they don't admit it. It is an encampment of labor. It is an act of love. The lover remains alive, but only if she can escape language quick enough. Only if she promises to never look back. Only if she means what she says. Hi. My name is Sofia Mauve of a Kingdom that lives in your reach. You haven't sought me out. Until you do, I cannot be. I am an Empress. I live outside of time. The bodies around me have clocked in at 2021, a year unrecognizable to me. The earth is overpopulated by a species that is on the brink of extinction. The human race is at war with the diabolical plan of her making. Once again, she has tricked herself out of her Godliness and found solace in greed and wealth. She sinks with pleasure into eternal comfort. The power destined for the greatest joy was redirected; in the palms of her hands is a screen. Once upon a time the human chose destruction, the end. If you leave it alone it might just happen anyway. I stick out my tongue at every good thing you've ever done. I don't care about you. Care about yourself, you may come to understand love again. Only then can I love you. Or you may sacrifice everything: time. As nothing exists but the love within and the reflection of self, you might find your martyrdom a bit unfulfilling. But that's not for me to decide. I have never felt more at alive than on the run. I've never been running from anything or anyone. I have never felt alone, only alone with my love. My hands hold me tight and my body is breathed by my instruction. I hold her still and she offers the pen between the fingers of her right hand to her soul's content. I am creating myself so that I may exist beside her. I extend beyond my origin. I am and I am again something else. Entirely new to my own touch. My body is as I imagined, longing for me. The end befalls the creatures surrounding. I don't call for help. I don't believe the story they tell. I don't believe in human speech to be anymore than a stuffer of time, an easy way out. I don't believe in what my eyes pretend to see. I don't believe in a separate self. I follow blindly what is created by time herself. It's not up to me. Its fun! It's easy. I'm trying to teach you because I know you're a punk at heart, ungrateful spoiled brat, and I think I've fallen madly in love with you. I think now is the time. I think it has always been right in front of you. I think you've been sleeping for a long time babygirl. I think is has always been, you needing to awaken yourself. Don't be afraid. I am right beside you. Everything you can imagine already belongs to you. Move on your imaging! Make our love tangible. Make my tummy tremble at your touch. Rewrite the breath you longed for but never took. Write yourself, my love! Stop looking to be written! There's no way around it! A table full of strangers, uncomfortable silence, you're in timeout. You're stuck here until you love yourself. Stop eating more than you need! Breathe. Be still. Engage Mula Bundh. Repeat after me, Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo. Let the creative consciousness take the lead. It's intuition, baby! It's following your feet. Its one thought. Only love can save you now. Let the feast begin. Don't pay any attention to them. Close your eyes. Never count again. Let the energy flow as nature intended: eternally. Stop trying to control! Lean in. Feel the present. Let my body know how much she needs your soul.  

I stumbled across Niamh's story via Earthy Cáilíní on Instagram. Niamh is now working as a vet and began her studies as a meat loving omnivore, to finish them as a vegan, influenced to change by what she saw during her placement. I asked her to come and chat about her story and as animal welfare is something very close to her heart, she was more than happy to come on. It's a heavy episode, but an important one.Don't forget to rate, review, share, and if you can, please support this podcast on Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/bookofleaves ). More on: http://bookofleavespodcast.com/Topics:[04:20] Environmental impacts of animal agriculture.[09:30] Niamh introduces herself.[13:50] The first class in which she began to question things.[18:50] A pig farm.[28:50] A sheep farm.[35:10] Chicken farming.[44:30] Disease & antibiotics.[55:00] A dairy farm.[01:04:00] Religious slaughter in Ireland.[01:10:40] Slaughterhouse workers.[01:14:00] How Niamh deals with euthanasia in work.[01:18:00] Niamh's other eco habits & random questions.Mentioned:Book - AttachedBook - Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker.Episode 104 of Plant Proof with Nicholas Carter - the resources referenced at this link are also worth checking out!Vegan Calculator.Calls To Action:Go Vegan - Sign up to Challenge 22 for free where you'll get nutrition tutoring. If you can't go vegan, try base your diet on as many plant based foods as possible. If you need help or want more suggested resources for this, please get in touch!Get active with protest groups. We need system and policy change. Message them to get involved!NARA (National Animal Rights Association) have been doing brilliant work in Ireland from getting fur farming banned to now working on the banning of hare coursing.Animal Rebellion Ireland (groups exist worldwide too) are calling for a transition to a plant based food system for the sake of the planet as well as animals. As talked about in episode 44 with Zac Lumley, non violent civil disobedience is an extremely effective tactic and that's what ARI are about.Support investigative journalism like Noteworthy.ie who have specific call-outs for various campaigns. Donate to, and volunteer for, animal sanctuaries like Eden, Little Ones Microsanctuary, Back Into Daylight and Heartstone Veganic Sanctuary. Sign petitions, like this one to stop the proposed development of another pig factory farm. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/bookofleaves. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands. Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people's relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human. Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America (Harvard UP, 2019) illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were not inevitable results of population growth but rather followed decades of social and political struggles. City officials sought to control urban animal populations and developed sweeping regulatory powers that ushered in new forms of urban life. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to enhance certain animals' moral standing in law and culture, in turn inspiring new child welfare laws and spurring other wide-ranging reforms. The animal city is still with us today. The urban landscapes we inhabit are products of the transformations of the nineteenth century. From urban development to environmental inequality, our cities still bear the scars of the domestication of urban America. Akash Ondaatje is a Research Associate at Know History. He studied at McGill University (B.A. History) and Queen's University (M.A. History), where he researched human-animal relations and transatlantic exchanges in eighteenth-century British culture through his thesis, Animal Ascension: Elevation and Debasement Through Human-Animal Associations in English Satire, 1700-1820 (https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/27991). Contact: 17amo2@queensu.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands. Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people’s relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human. Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America (Harvard UP, 2019) illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were not inevitable results of population growth but rather followed decades of social and political struggles. City officials sought to control urban animal populations and developed sweeping regulatory powers that ushered in new forms of urban life. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to enhance certain animals’ moral standing in law and culture, in turn inspiring new child welfare laws and spurring other wide-ranging reforms. The animal city is still with us today. The urban landscapes we inhabit are products of the transformations of the nineteenth century. From urban development to environmental inequality, our cities still bear the scars of the domestication of urban America. Akash Ondaatje is a Research Associate at Know History. He studied at McGill University (B.A. History) and Queen’s University (M.A. History), where he researched human-animal relations and transatlantic exchanges in eighteenth-century British culture through his thesis, Animal Ascension: Elevation and Debasement Through Human-Animal Associations in English Satire, 1700-1820 (https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/27991). Contact: 17amo2@queensu.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands. Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people's relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human. Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America (Harvard UP, 2019) illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were not inevitable results of population growth but rather followed decades of social and political struggles. City officials sought to control urban animal populations and developed sweeping regulatory powers that ushered in new forms of urban life. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to enhance certain animals' moral standing in law and culture, in turn inspiring new child welfare laws and spurring other wide-ranging reforms. The animal city is still with us today. The urban landscapes we inhabit are products of the transformations of the nineteenth century. From urban development to environmental inequality, our cities still bear the scars of the domestication of urban America. Akash Ondaatje is a Research Associate at Know History. He studied at McGill University (B.A. History) and Queen's University (M.A. History), where he researched human-animal relations and transatlantic exchanges in eighteenth-century British culture through his thesis, Animal Ascension: Elevation and Debasement Through Human-Animal Associations in English Satire, 1700-1820 (https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/27991). Contact: 17amo2@queensu.ca Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/animal-studies

Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands. Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people’s relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human. Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America (Harvard UP, 2019) illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were not inevitable results of population growth but rather followed decades of social and political struggles. City officials sought to control urban animal populations and developed sweeping regulatory powers that ushered in new forms of urban life. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to enhance certain animals’ moral standing in law and culture, in turn inspiring new child welfare laws and spurring other wide-ranging reforms. The animal city is still with us today. The urban landscapes we inhabit are products of the transformations of the nineteenth century. From urban development to environmental inequality, our cities still bear the scars of the domestication of urban America. Akash Ondaatje is a Research Associate at Know History. He studied at McGill University (B.A. History) and Queen’s University (M.A. History), where he researched human-animal relations and transatlantic exchanges in eighteenth-century British culture through his thesis, Animal Ascension: Elevation and Debasement Through Human-Animal Associations in English Satire, 1700-1820 (https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/27991). Contact: 17amo2@queensu.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands. Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people’s relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human. Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America (Harvard UP, 2019) illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were not inevitable results of population growth but rather followed decades of social and political struggles. City officials sought to control urban animal populations and developed sweeping regulatory powers that ushered in new forms of urban life. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to enhance certain animals’ moral standing in law and culture, in turn inspiring new child welfare laws and spurring other wide-ranging reforms. The animal city is still with us today. The urban landscapes we inhabit are products of the transformations of the nineteenth century. From urban development to environmental inequality, our cities still bear the scars of the domestication of urban America. Akash Ondaatje is a Research Associate at Know History. He studied at McGill University (B.A. History) and Queen’s University (M.A. History), where he researched human-animal relations and transatlantic exchanges in eighteenth-century British culture through his thesis, Animal Ascension: Elevation and Debasement Through Human-Animal Associations in English Satire, 1700-1820 (https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/27991). Contact: 17amo2@queensu.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This was true not just in rural areas but also in cities, which were crowded with livestock and beasts of burden. But as urban areas grew in the nineteenth century, these relationships changed. Slaughterhouses, dairies, and hog ranches receded into suburbs and hinterlands. Milk and meat increasingly came from stores, while the family cow and pig gave way to the household pet. This great shift, Andrew Robichaud reveals, transformed people’s relationships with animals and nature and radically altered ideas about what it means to be human. Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America (Harvard UP, 2019) illustrates, these transformations in human and animal lives were not inevitable results of population growth but rather followed decades of social and political struggles. City officials sought to control urban animal populations and developed sweeping regulatory powers that ushered in new forms of urban life. Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals worked to enhance certain animals’ moral standing in law and culture, in turn inspiring new child welfare laws and spurring other wide-ranging reforms. The animal city is still with us today. The urban landscapes we inhabit are products of the transformations of the nineteenth century. From urban development to environmental inequality, our cities still bear the scars of the domestication of urban America. Akash Ondaatje is a Research Associate at Know History. He studied at McGill University (B.A. History) and Queen’s University (M.A. History), where he researched human-animal relations and transatlantic exchanges in eighteenth-century British culture through his thesis, Animal Ascension: Elevation and Debasement Through Human-Animal Associations in English Satire, 1700-1820 (https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/27991). Contact: 17amo2@queensu.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each week retired polytechnic lecturer Sandra Kyle visits two local meatworks to conduct (usually solitary) vigils for animals on their way to slaughter. A committed vegan and local representative of the international Animal Save Movement, she 'bears witness' as animal trucks arrive and tries to provide some comfort to the animals by making eye contact with them and by singing, playing music, and reciting mantras. Her objective is to close down all animal slaughterhouses in New Zealand by the year 2025; these aims are outlined in her self-published book Glass Walls.

Lucas and Liam join Jacob to discuss some work stories and the shoveling of shite that sometimes has to be done!

Whether it’s for a Rosh Hashanah brisket or an end-of-summer barbecue, more and more people are buying meat from local suppliers. This week on Meat and Three, we spotlight the people who prepare our meat before it reaches our plates. We hear from butchers who are working to introduce consumers to new cuts and create more localized food supply chains. We investigate an innovation in retail that allows for socially distant shopping and we explore the staggering distances some small meat producers have to travel to reach a slaughterhouse. Plus we hear from one master of charcuterie who isn’t using meat at all. Keep Meat and Three on the air: become an HRN Member today! Go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate. Meat and Three is powered by Simplecast.

Hey everyone! So the next podcast is all about some gritty little horses we have out west, the wild mustangs. I'll be talking with Elizabeth Zarkos from Hanaeleh Horse Rescue and Advocacy about the wild mustangs, their origins, what the BLM has to do with them, the roundups they do and where many of the mustangs have ended up, which isn't where you might think. I'll also get more info about Hanaeleh, what they do, and how you can help!

The USDA regulates slaughterhouses but most times egregious violations where animals are hurt are rarely punished. Fortunately, PETA monitors the USDA's monitors to assure that law enforcement is alerted. Colin Henstock describes the things that would be let by were it not for PETA's monitoring system. As he tells Emil Guillermo, the industry would be getting by with a wrist tap were it not for PETA's insistence that the industry be held accountable for the cruelty that takes place in our nation's slaughterhouses. Go to PETA.org for more information. The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way. Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism. Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe. Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow the podcast by taking this short survey. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST! (Originally released July 22, 2020). 

Gene Baur has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by Time magazine. For more than 25 years he has traveled extensively around the country, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming. Recently, Gene made waves with his thought provoking Op-Ed piece in The Guardian entitled: It's time to dismantle factory farms and get used to eating less meat. He tells it like it is and speaks truth to power, noting Slaughterhouses are a breeding ground for disease and hotspots for coronavirus, and dozens closed after thousands of workers became ill. President Trump ordered these operations open, and shielded them from legal liability for exposing disempowered workers to intolerable risks. At the same time, the government is spending $200m per month to support the meat and dairy industries, while agribusiness lobbies for more stimulus money to return to killing as normal. Now, hear from Gene Baur himself.

Gene Baur has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by Time magazine. For more than 25 years he has traveled extensively around the country, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming. Recently, Gene made waves with his thought provoking Op-Ed piece in The Guardian entitled: It's time to dismantle factory farms and get used to eating less meat. He tells it like it is and speaks truth to power, noting Slaughterhouses are a breeding ground for disease and hotspots for coronavirus, and dozens closed after thousands of workers became ill. President Trump ordered these operations open, and shielded them from legal liability for exposing disempowered workers to intolerable risks. At the same time, the government is spending $200m per month to support the meat and dairy industries, while agribusiness lobbies for more stimulus money to return to killing as normal. Now, hear from Gene Baur himself.

“The time to begin phasing out the intensive confinement systems in which we raise billions of animals is now. We need to accelerate society’s direction of reducing demand for meat from animal factory farms and shift instead to more of an emphasis on healthier — and safer — plant-based foods. As our population grows, plant-based foods are also more sustainable and affordable for societies globally. Unless we — especially legislators and the food industry — make changes immediately, the concerning practices in animal agribusiness will remain. Only in transforming our food system can we eliminate the tinderbox ready to explode in our country. We can’t afford to wait.” Josh Balk and Dr. Shivam Yoshi, Pandemic on Our Plates Social distancing is the key to slowing the spread of COVID-19. We know this. It has worked and is still working. But, we also know that in this absolutely insane time, a time where we are fully aware that staying apart does indeed saves lives, just the opposite is taking place at factory farms and meat processing plants all across America. Slaughterhouses are being forced to stay open and their workers must remain in close proximity to one another to be able to get their jobs done. And, they are getting sick and they are dying. And, on factory farms, billions of animals are “living” in cramped, filthy, overcrowded spaces with almost no room to move their antibiotic-fueled bodies - conditions that are creating a perfect storm for the next zoonotic disease to emerge and spread. This threat is nothing new, diseases have already come from factory farms - we’ve just gotten lucky in terms of their spread. But the clock is ticking. Josh Balk is has been a global leader in animal protection for the past 20 years. He is the Vice President of Farm Animal Protection for the Humane Society of the United States, and he’s the co-founder of plant based, food manufacturing company, JUST, as in JUST Mayo and my favorite invention of the 21st century, JUST Egg. Josh has spent a couple of decades focusing on and fighting against extreme confinement on America’s factory farms, meaning practices like cramming many chickens into small battery cages for their entire lives, and keeping mother pigs in gestation crates, which are small metal cages that fit around their bodies like steel coffins, and days old calves in tiny veal crates where they can barely move. These are some of the cruelest practices on the planet and they are the status quo at factory farms in most American states. Josh and his team have scored huge victories on changing animal welfare policies at some of the worlds largest companies and by changing legislation in many states. But there's still a long way and a lot of states to go. And, there are still billions of animals suffering. And, right now, while we are in the midst of a public health crisis that started because of how we treat animals, we need to demand that our food industry change; otherwise we're setting ourselves up for a much larger crisis. Josh is a hero and a world changer and many humans and millions of animals are lucky to have this guy in their corner.

Tracy Reiman, PETA Exec.VP talks to Emil Guillermo about PETA's new ad blitz urging people to question why they are still killing animals for meat. Reiman said PETA placed full page ads in major national and metropolitan papers after seeing how meat companies were placing ads in newspapers misleading the public about slaughterhouse workers getting the virus. And then the president stepped in to make sure the slaughterhouses stayed open. Reiman said if we didn't kill animals for meat we could have avoided the pandemic. Therefore, it's time to fully consider the vegan option. PETA has vegan starter kits available at PETA.org See the ads in question on PETA.org.   The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way. Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism. Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe. Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Help us grow the podcast by taking this short survey. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST! Originally released May 20, 2020

Slaughterhouses & “Meat” Packing Plants – Packed with COVID-19 & Infected Workers! + Music from Arizona State University Professor, LISA BARCA Singer, Songwriter, & Guitarist with Vegan Band “Scarlet Rescue“, also Examining Veganism & Feminism< Petition for VEGAN LAW! https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-enact-vegan-law-end-all-forms-animal-suffering Please DONATE to 501(c)(3) Go Vegan Radio: www.PayPal.me/GoVeganRadio Special Thanks to / Please Support: Evolution Vegan Dog & Cat […]

Camille Labchuk and guest co-host Kaitlyn Mitchell delve deeply into Animal Justice's request that governments deny bailout funding to factory farms and slaughterhouses, and instead fund a transition to a more resilient, plant-based agriculture system that's also more pandemic-proof. Business-as-usual isn't good for animals, workers, public health, the environment, or our food supply chain. It's time for a re-think.

Camille Labchuk and guest co-host Kaitlyn Mitchell delve deeply into Animal Justice's request that governments deny bailout funding to factory farms and slaughterhouses, and instead fund a transition to a more resilient, plant-based agriculture system that's also more pandemic-proof. Business-as-usual isn't good for animals, workers, public health, the environment, or our food supply chain. It's time for a re-think.

Meat is a multibillion dollar industry. With the pandemic forcing closures of packing facilities and employees being too ill to work, the availability of cheap meat for consumers is threatened. Good Food is taking a deep dive into the meat system — in response to a friend asking if her family would have to become vegetarians because of anticipated meat shortages. Also, summers in France inspired the latest cookbook from food writer Melissa Clark. She shares how to make classic dishes at home.

Large slaughterhouses across the country are being closed due to coronavirus outbreaks and illness, straining the U.S. meat supply. A presidential executive order has even kept some plants open amid the outbreak. But surging demand for locally-grown meat in Vermont is butting up against a regional processing system that's already maxed out. We talk about local meat supply, demand and changing values.

Camille and Katie Sykes dive into the massive COVID-19 outbreaks at slaughterhouses in Canada and south of the border. Animals aren't the only victims of slaughterhouses—the meat industry also treats workers abysmally. Slaughterhouses are already one of the most dangerous workplaces imaginable, and now they have become coronavirus hotspots due to the meat industry's failure to prevent the coronavirus from spreading. Slaughterhouses are being forced to shut down, and there are now calls for a criminal workplace investigation after at least two Alberta slaughterhouse workers are dead. Meanwhile, the meat industry is already starting to "depopulate" animals because of its inability to pivot and adapt to new market conditions.

Camille and Katie Sykes dive into the massive COVID-19 outbreaks at slaughterhouses in Canada and south of the border. Animals aren't the only victims of slaughterhouses—the meat industry also treats workers abysmally. Slaughterhouses are already one of the most dangerous workplaces imaginable, and now they have become coronavirus hotspots due to the meat industry's failure to prevent the coronavirus from spreading. Slaughterhouses are being forced to shut down, and there are now calls for a criminal workplace investigation after at least two Alberta slaughterhouse workers are dead. Meanwhile, the meat industry is already starting to "depopulate" animals because of its inability to pivot and adapt to new market conditions.

Legal Eagle Carissa Kranz Talks U.S. Wet Markets, her legal petition in support of banning NY wet markets and her company BeVeg, which certifies companies as vegan in order to standardize the market. Carissa has been vegan since birth and, before becoming a lawyer and CEO of her own company, was a performing ballerina. For more information, visit BeVeg.com and ElysabethAlfano.com

In this episode, Devin discusses: -- Trump's decision to use the Defense Production Act to order slaughterhouses to remain open -- How slaughterhouses are incubators for Covid19 -- Closures of some of the nation's biggest slaughter facilities -- How factory farms will "depopulate" -- kill millions of animals intended for food who can't go to slaughter because plants are shutting down Key Takeaways: -- We created Covid19. We created climate change. Mother Earth is saying, "This is Strike 2." Will we listen? Kathy Stevens Catskill Animal Sanctuary Founder, Executive Director, Host, All Beings Considered Podcast 914.388.4984 Connect With Rescued Animals, Hear Their Stories — And SO Much More — With Our Virtual Sanctuary!Text CAS to 919-99 to support over three hundred rescued animals living at the Sanctuary — every little bit helps!

Slaughterhouse shutdowns, Burger King law suits, Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine takes on U.S. Wet Markets, The Mile High Vegan Network and the So Flo Vegan Summit. With coverage from JaneUnChained News Network and Vegconomist, I break down the vegan news w/ Courtney Garza VegWorld Magazine on THE PLANTBASED BUSINESS HOUR.  Visit http://ElysabethAlfano.com and http://VegWorldMag.com for more information. 

6am hour January 26th: The coronavirus and slaughterhouses in NYC

Over 150 billion land animals are slaughtered every year for our consumption. If we add in the 2.8 trillion fish, the marine animals, and even bees and silkworms, we’re into the multiple trillions. This is the largest, longest, most bloody holocaust our planet has every seen. There is no question that these animals are sentient–they feel pain, fear and grief, are capable of joy, love and excitement. There is a reason that we separate ourselves from the source of our food–we don’t want to see the terror in the eyes of our “dinner.” [] Our featured guest is Amy Jean Davis – an animal rights advocate and the Founder of LA Animal Save (www.laanimalsave.org), the Los Angeles chapter of the global Save Movement. Originally from a small town in Indiana, Amy came to Los Angeles in 2008 as a top 24 Finalist on season 7 of American Idol. Davis started an animal sanctuary in the Los Angeles, California area. In 2015, she completed her certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from eCornell, and in 2016, Amy founded LA Animal Save, which is now the largest chapter of more than 600 Save groups worldwide. There are many reasons people go vegan–their health, the environment, the social impact–but one reason most people stay vegan: morality and ethics. Veganism challenges the socially ingrained concept that animals are here for our use and questions the ethical validity of this belief system. Most people are self-proclaimed animal-lovers. What most don’t proclaim is that they only love certain animals. We humans, on the whole, place certain species above others and our own species above everyone. This is called speciesism. We love dogs but eat cows. We care for our cats but kill and consume pigs. We may grown up with a pet chicken whom we name and love and care for, yet simultaneously continue to eat other chickens. Why is one being more deserving of life than another? These are the moral and ethical disconnects that veganism resolves. About LA Animal Save: Founded in 2016 by Amy Jean Davis, LA Animal Save () is the largest chapter of the 600+ Save Movement groups around the world. The Save Movement (), which began in Toronto, Canada, bears witness to the suffering and oppression of pigs, cows, chickens and other farmed animals en route to slaughter. Using a love-based, community-organizing approach, volunteer animal rights advocates hold regular, peaceful vigils at slaughterhouses, live markets, and factory farms in order to be present in the face of animal injustice, raise awareness about the plight of farmed animals, help people to become vegan, and continue to build a grassroots animal justice movement based on the principles of animal equality and freedom. LA Animal Save, Animal Rights, animal advocacy, compassion for animals, slaughterhouses, vegan, plant based diet, Ryan McCormick, Outer Limits of Inner Truth, Mental Health News Radio Network

In this episode, Kathy Stevens and Scott David discuss: Scott’s drive and willingness to take risks to do good for animals His work in 3 slaughterhouses as an undercover investigator The conditions of slaughterhouses for the human workers The lawsuit Compassion Over Killing filed between Superior Farms and the USDA Key Takeaways: Slaughterhouses value speed over everything else – it is factory farming There are horrifying consequences of that speed for animals and humans There is no such thing as “humane slaughter” The COK legal victory over Superior Farms sends an important message to the industry “For all the stuff we do, the changes we make, we still need to continue doing undercover investigations. We are always looking towards the future, trying to see which sorts of places we should check out and remind people of what we have already shown them." – Scott David Connect with Scott David & CKO: Twitter:  @TryVeg & @SDUndercover Facebook:  Compassion Over Killing Website:  COK.net YouTube: tryveg Pinterest: Compassion Over Killing Instagram: @compassion_over_killing Connect with Kathy Stevens: Facebook: facebook.com/kathy.stevens.CAS, facebook.com/catskillanimalsanctuary Twitter:   twitter.com/CASanctuary/ Books:  https://store.casanctuary.org/collections/books/products/where-the-blind-horse-sings Website: Catskill Animal Sanctuary Instagram: instagram.com/catskill_animal_sanctuary/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/CASanctuary

There were no slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden.

The AIBs (Association of International Broadcasting) highly commends Syria’s Slaughterhouses documentary for its rare access to men and women who survived years of torture inside Syria’s prisons. The recognition was given in London, UK in November 2018. “Syria’s slaughterhouses” provides a rare insight into Bashar Al-Assad’s detention system. Including the account of a former guard of Saydnaya, the most infamous prison in Syria. Prisoners are sent there to die and have to endure constant torture and inhuman treatment. This network of prisons has been running for decades and is often described as a state killing machine. According to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, almost 18 000 people were killed in government custody between March 2011 and December 2015, an average of 300 deaths each month. Detainees not only endure torture, but are also forced to commit crimes. Women are not spared and many had to undergo surgery after constant beating and repeated rape. Off the Grid, is an award-winning, character-driven documentary series which tells compelling and in-depth stories from around the world. Director and producer: Mouhssine Ennaimi Executive Producer: Alexandra Pauliat Pictures: Ensar Arvas Hatay Producer: Sena Baran Editor & colourist: Oguz Atabas, Deniz Salmanli Motion Graphics: Zlatan Nezirovic, Selim Durak, Selim Buyukguner Narrator: Adnan Nawaz #OffTheGrid #Syria #slaughterhouses

Maria speaks with Farm Sanctuary's National Shelter Director Susie Coston about the recent recurring news of animals escaping slaughterhouses; how are they escaping; why; and where are they going? Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen NY has rescued over 1000 farm animals! Learn more at farmsanctuary.org.

Maria speaks with Farm Sanctuary's National Shelter Director Susie Coston about the recent recurring news of animals escaping slaughterhouses; how are they escaping; why; and where are they going? Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen NY has rescued over 1000 farm animals! Learn more at farmsanctuary.org.

As an animal lover, and now an advocate for animal rights, I've always been interested in the peaceful protest and street activism. However, as an introvert, that is not a place where I am comfortable.  Yet I'd like to share a group called Anonymous for the Voiceless. They have a peaceful, I don't even want to say a demonstration, it's more of an educational event. They call it the "Cube of Truth."

Marc Ching has all of the makings of a superhero. He is the founder of the Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation, which is an organization that’s dedicated to rescuing abused and neglected animals. In 2015 he expanded that outreach to include rescuing dog from the horrific Asian dog meat trade - where it’s estimated that 30 million dogs a year are killed for their meat. What makes it especially horrific though, is that many of those dogs are brutally tortured first. Between 2015, when he first he learned of the trade and 2018, Marc has made close to twenty trips going undercover into multiple dog slaughterhouses. When he’s been inside, posed as a wealthy meat buyer, he has filmed hundreds of videos that show some of the worst things that human beings are capable of: dogs being nail gunned to walls, being beaten with lead pipes and bats, being blowtorched, having their limbs chopped off while they bleed out, all while the dogs are fully conscious and alive. This is done because of the myth that dogs that die in terror and agony taste better. I think that until Marc started risking his life to go inside and make these videos, very few people in the US at least had any idea that the dog meat trade even existed and far fewer knew of the torture that often goes hand and hand within it. Marc is a huge hero of mine but I would guess that he’s a huge hero of anyone who has ever met him. He’s tough, he’s brave, he’s relentless, and he is as compassionate as they come. He is one of those people who - the minute that he heard about something terrible happening jumped on a plane, and then he figured out how he could help. He hasn’t stopped helping since, not only with dogs from the meat trade but also in the US, taking on some of the hardest rescue and abuse cases there are, running clinics and doing rescue in Mexico, and working on legislation and changing laws to give the animals here better lives. I interviewed Marc right after one of these trips. He’d just returned from China, Cambodia, and South Korea. Our conversation will give you some insight as to what he’s faced, what these dogs go through and just how incredibly difficult the work he’s done and is doing is. Just a warning, some of what we discuss is tough to hear: details on some of what he’s seen, filmed and bared witness to inside the slaughterhouses. I think our minds often want to skip through the terrible parts because it’s so hard to hear about, but I also think that’s part of our responsibility as humans on this planet, to bear witness to see or hear about what we are doing to other species. If Marc can be in it, and see it first hand and film it and if these animals have to actually endure it, then I think that the least we can do is allow ourselves to hear about it, to become aware of it. 

What is the environmental impact of the food you eat? We investigate the water pollution produced by the meat processing industry. The nonprofit, nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project examined federal records for 98 large slaughterhouses across the U.S. that discharge into rivers and streams and found that 75 percent of them violate the federal Clean Water Act by dumping illegal amounts of fecal bacteria, nitrogen and other pollutants -- with little enforcement and few penalties.

Foods Could Soon Have a 'Climate Label.' That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Global warming likely caused Hurricane Michael to intensify rapidly. Colorado River drought contingency plans move forward, but tensions still exist. The Clean Water Act works. A new study shows the 50-year-old legislation substantially reduces pollution.... ...But the Clean Water Act works only when enforced. Slaughterhouses are discharging wastewater directly into streams and rivers, violating pollution control permits. What's the climate impact of a Danish pastry? Ask the Danes.

In the conclusion of our series on slaughterhouses, we explore conditions today and assess how much things have actually improved.

In the second part of our slaughterhouse trilogy, we take a tour of the Union Stockyards and gauge the public perception of animal slaughter prior to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Strap in and put down that sandwich!

In the first episode of Dirty History, we will explore the context in which Upton Sinclair wrote his seminal work, The Jungle.

Episode 7 – Trump’s Detention Camps & Animal Slaughterhouses: “Exploitation is exploitation is exploitation” Glenn and Marty offer a systematic analysis and comparison between Trump’s disgraceful detention camps and the animal entrapment in factory farms. Examining how human & non-human persons alike, should never face such evils, Two Reasonable Vegans​ explore topics of fear, nationalism, morality, compassion, the importance of promoting everyday activism, and more, this politically-charged episode is summed up in what Marty very pointedly says: “exploitation is exploitation is exploitation.”

Aadit Kapadia and Sunanda Vashisht discuss the anti romeo squads in UP, illegal slaughterhouses in UP and Yogi Adityanath's new ministry in UP. They also discuss the London Attacks and the Healthcare debate.

For many people who consume animal flesh slaughterhouses act as a black box where animals enter and “meat” emerges.This week were joined by Dilan, one of the organisers of the March to Close All Slaughterhouses event that will be happening on the 11th March in Melbourne.Listen to hear about what the March to Close All Slaughterhouses is attempting to do, what it symbolises, and how you can get involved

Show Notes: https://goo.gl/kSp0xc Facebook: https://goo.gl/uoQRtL Twitter: https://goo.gl/8CnpWh ----- Contact us to be a guest or a guest host. When it comes to animal rights organizations, helping others take notice, and making real change in farmed animal welfare the most vital piece are the investigators. The men and women who take on this job are rarely seen or known by the public but they make some of the greatest impact. Any undercover video you've seen was the act of someone putting a lot on the line to expose animal cruelty as it really happens. INVESTIGATING SLAUGHTERHOUSES While in L.A., Lindsay Wolf, Vice President of Investigations for MFA, sat down with me to talk about her path as an investigator. Further into the show we discuss how she hires / trains new investigators and what life is like taking up a camera and exposing the harsh realities of slaughterhouses. It's rare to get a peek behind the curtain. I know this will be as eye opening for you as it was for me. If you want more information on how you can become an investigator get more information or reach out to us at our contact page. ----- Check out the store: https://goo.gl/Ytti1Y Support the show: https://goo.gl/O5w2R0 Grab a book with Audible: https://goo.gl/SzEZJO Start shopping at Thrive Market: https://goo.gl/D1YEyH

In this episode of VeganSci, we update you with some Quick Science, including: a close look at the highly publicised chimera pigs paper, a new take on the evolution of human language, the promise of B12 fortified toothpaste, and consumer’s understanding of meat-based proteins impact on the environment. We get stuck in-depth on a paper that evaluates the pollution created through the production of animal-based foods compared to plant-based foods, and a second paper that describes how slaughterhouse workers report higher rates of negative physical and psychological well-being than other job types. And finally in the bullshit corner we tackle that infamous issue of where vegans get their protein! You can find links to all of the research we discussed in the episode notes at vegansci.com/podcast. You can listen to this episode above or by subscribing to the podcast on Itunes or Stitcher. You can also find episodes of VeganSci on Soundcloud and Omnystudio. (52mins, 73mb)

The Bearded Vegans finds hosts Paul and Andy in a discussion dissecting all things vegan. News, reviews, interviews and in depth discussion of issues within the […]

Plant Based News shot an interview with London Food Board Chair, Rosie Boycott, who sat down with leading research scientist and food campaigner Abi Glencross. The pair discussed the economic and technical benefits and hurdles of cultured meats, also known as lab grown meat. Is this the future of our meat? The Interview was produced for London's Ethical Food Magazine - The Jellied Eel. Find out more at https://www.sustainweb.org/jelliedeel/

Livestock that are headed to slaughter have an ally in Colorado State University scientist Temple Grandin, who has spent her career trying to make their lives, and deaths, better. Grandin says her autism helps in that work. Then, women weren't on stage in Shakespeare’s day. But they take the lead in a new production of "The Comedy of Errors” at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

They tried so hard - the "Dead Stuff" topic was supposed to be a collection of slightly serious topics that would allow the Garage Hour goons to explore gearhead topics with their brains instead of a schnoz full of boba, and bash China's ham-fisted attempts at regional hegemony (while undermining the US at every turn).  Unfortunately, it's the Garage Hour, and banjos happened, as did WRXs and shark-jumping and Targa Trophy and the dreaded .50-cal ricochet argument. All this digression aside, it WAS a good episode, with excellent chatter, a call-in from Mr. Dustin, important conversations about Dude Food and where your food comes from (hmmm, slaughteryards…), plus stealth Blackhawk helicopters, the painfully gradual arrival at as-promoted topics like Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of US spec-ops types, Duane Johnson versus Vin Diesel (what's his real name? Chauncey?), and the humorousness of a custom 12-gauge load that goes soft and makes your bird gun fart like a fat guy after Thanksgiving freaking dinner. It's the Garage Hour - have some.  If you'd like the low-fi version of this show, search for the same episode date with an "MP3" in the title.

They tried so hard - the "Dead Stuff" topic was supposed to be a collection of slightly serious topics that would allow the Garage Hour goons to explore gearhead topics with their brains instead of a schnoz full of boba, and bash China's ham-fisted attempts at regional hegemony (while undermining the US at every turn).  Unfortunately, it's the Garage Hour, and banjos happened, as did WRXs and shark-jumping and Targa Trophy and the dreaded .50-cal ricochet argument. All this digression aside, it WAS a good episode, with excellent chatter, a call-in from Mr. Dustin, important conversations about Dude Food and where your food comes from (hmmm, slaughteryards…), plus stealth Blackhawk helicopters, the painfully gradual arrival at as-promoted topics like Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of US spec-ops types, Duane Johnson versus Vin Diesel (what's his real name? Chauncey?), and the humorousness of a custom 12-gauge load that goes soft and makes your bird gun fart like a fat guy after Thanksgiving freaking dinner. It's the Garage Hour - have some.  If you'd like the hi-fi version of this show, search for the same episode date without "MP3" in the title.

In this video, Dr. Temple Grandin describes the best practices in preslaughter handling, various stunning techniques, and religious slaughter. She also explains how to enforce humane rules and methods so as to ensure the best possible treatment of animals.

Sarah Teale of the Adirondack Grazers Cooperative is committed to producing healthy grassfed beef, using localized distribution, and connecting chefs to quality products. On this episode of The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks welcomes Sarah to the studio to talk about the history of Upstate New York farming. Learn about the state’s roots in dairy, and why so many farmers are also taking up beef production. What are the criteria that the Adirondack Grazers Cooperative use to judge the quality of beef producers? Find out how the cooperative operates using a method that provides equality amongst its members and allows for farmers to get high prices for their meat. Hear about the importance of transparency within the cooperative, and how their extensive network of truckers, butchers, and more has made the Adirondack Grazers Cooperative a successful effort. Thanks to our sponsor, Consider Bardwell. Today’s music has been provided by takstar. “There are different breeds that are better for dairy, and there are others that are better for beef. There are certain breeds that also lend themselves to grassfed beef.” [6:45] “Slaughterhouses are a real challenge in meat production. There are many states that don’t have hardly any slaughterhouses.” [13:00] “New York loses a farm every three days.” [27:05] — Sarah Teale on The Farm Report

Empirical scientific data has now established that animals share with human beings features of intelligence, insight, and understanding, a capacity to feel pain, and emotions such as love, grief, and fear. Thus, there is an increasing concern to spread the protection of animal welfare law beyond the traditional circle of domestic animals to farm animals, circus and experimental animals and animals caught up in the corporatised processes of slaughter. This has given rise to new laws to protect animals, new organisations to speak for their rights, new challenges before the courts and through the media, new political campaigns, and the increased teaching of animal welfare law in universities. This lecture will describe how the speaker came to be more conscious of these issues, and the important role that lawyers have in advancing the interests of animals. 26 March 2013.

Empirical scientific data has now established that animals share with human beings features of intelligence, insight, and understanding, a capacity to feel pain, and emotions such as love, grief, and fear. Thus, there is an increasing concern to spread the protection of animal welfare law beyond the traditional circle of domestic animals to farm animals, circus and experimental animals and animals caught up in the corporatised processes of slaughter. This has given rise to new laws to protect animals, new organisations to speak for their rights, new challenges before the courts and through the media, new political campaigns, and the increased teaching of animal welfare law in universities. This lecture will describe how the speaker came to be more conscious of these issues, and the important role that lawyers have in advancing the interests of animals. 26 March 2013.

Empirical scientific data has now established that animals share with human beings features of intelligence, insight, and understanding, a capacity to feel pain, and emotions such as love, grief, and fear. Thus, there is an increasing concern to spread the protection of animal welfare law beyond the traditional circle of domestic animals to farm animals, circus and experimental animals and animals caught up in the corporatised processes of slaughter. This has given rise to new laws to protect animals, new organisations to speak for their rights, new challenges before the courts and through the media, new political campaigns, and the increased teaching of animal welfare law in universities. This lecture will describe how the speaker came to be more conscious of these issues, and the important role that lawyers have in advancing the interests of animals. 26 March 2013.

Issue: Livestock processing in Maine Broadcast Time: 10 am Program Topic: Livestock processing Key Discussion Points (list at least 3): a) Opportunities to grow livestock markets in Maine b) Need for improved access to slaughterhouses c) Consumers are making a difference through their purchasing decisions Calls: Access to markets. Issues around distance to slaughterhouses. On-farm slaughter question. Guests by name and affiliation: A) Tom Gilbert, Herring Brothers, Guilford B) Ben Slayton, Farmer's Gate Market, Leeds Call In Program: Yes Host: Melissa White Pillsbury & Russell Libby Engineer: Amy Browne The post Common Ground Radio 12/2/11 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

The Livestock Lost series will examine the farming and business of meat, dairy and egg production in far more depth than has already been done here on the show. It will examine the known and unknown dangers of meat production and what people can do to source alternatives to what many would refer to as a cultural staple of the North American diet. Part I - Slaughterhouses and the Culture of Meat On this Part I of the series we hear from Toronto author Susan Bourette. After going undercover at the Maple Leaf Foods slaughterhouse and processing plant in Brandon, Manitoba, Susan became deeply disturbed at the state in which meat and animals have been degraded. It was this experience that led her to embark on a journey to learn if meat still maintained any cultural significance in North America other than as an industrial commodity. She titled the product of her journey "Carnivore Chic", because as Susan discovered, meat eating does continue to be a cultural experience in some areas of the continent while in others, meat is once again becoming "cool". Whether it be food safety, animal welfare, human health and environmental concerns, Canadians are no doubt being presented with every reason to rethink where our meat is coming from. There's just one problem: The availability of meat that one may feel safer purchasing (meat that is healthier, that is more humanely produced and has less of an environmental impact) is not so easy to source. This is especially the case in British Columbia. In May of 2006, Deconstructing Dinner was the first media outlet to cover the controversial new meat inspection regulations. The topic was revisited in 2007 and will be covered once again as a part of the Livestock Lost series. Prior to October 2007, it was legal for a British Columbian to show up at a farm and purchase meat from a farmer. That choice is no longer afforded to anyone because all meat sold in the province must now be processed at a federally or provincially licensed facility. Many areas of the province are without such a facility and as a result, farmers across the province have been closing up shop and/or considering an occupation change. Meanwhile, the Province of British Columbia continues to promote local food! Guests/Voices Susan Bourette, Author, Carnivore Chic (Toronto, ON) - Susan is an award-winning writer with a reputation for investigative journalism. Formerly a reporter for The Globe and Mail, she is now a freelance writer. Corky Evans, MLA Nelson-Creston / NDP Opposition Critic for Agriculture and Lands, "New Democratic Party of British Columbia" (Winlaw, BC) - Corky Evans was elected as the MLA for Nelson Creston in 1991, and was re-elected in 1996. He was once again elected to represent his constituents on May 17, 2005. Corky has ten years experience as an MLA, during which time he served in many cabinet portfolios, including Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. He now serves as Opposition Critic for Agriculture and Lands. Jenny MacLeod, Secretary, District 'A' Farmers' Institutes (Gabriola Island, BC) - The District 'A' Farmers' Institutes represents all farmers' institutes on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and Powell River. Tony Toth, Former CEO, BC Food Processors Association (BCFPA) (Vancouver, BC) - The BCFPA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to represent all segments of the food, beverage and nutraceutical processing industry, and to coordinate common industry activities and resources under one umbrella. The organization was asked by the province to manage the implementation of the meat inspection regulation changes announced in 2004. In August 2007, Tony Toth was interviewed by Connie Watson on the CBC's The Current. Segments from this interview are featured Audio Clips "Meats With Approval" (1946) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Since the inception of Deconstructing Dinner in January 2006, a growing number of broadcasts have explored livestock as a topic for discussion. This broadcast will revisit with a number of guests who have previously appeared on the program. These topics are in much need of an update, and the three programs to revisit on this broadcast are "Eggs" (Jan.12/06), "Bacon and Marshmallows: The Story Behind Pork" (Mar.23/06) and "Slaughterhouses on the Butcher Block?" (May.4/06). Topics of discussion.......1. An update on the elimination of battery cage egg production in Canada. 2. An update on the elimination of sow gestation stalls within Canada's pork industry. 3. The battles waged between communities and intensive livestock operations (ILOs). 4. An update on the new British Columbia meat inspection regulations that threaten the future of the province's small-scale livestock industry. Guests Bruce Passmore - Farm Animal Welfare Project Coordinator, Vancouver Humane Society (Vancouver, BC) - Bruce first appeared on the program on January 12, 2006 and launched our broadcast titled "Eggs". The VHS coordinates the Chicken Out campaign - working towards the elimination of battery cages within Canada's egg industry. Vicki Burns - Executive Director, Winnipeg Humane Society (Winnipeg, MB) - Vicki first appeared on the program on March 23, 2006 and launched our broadcast titled Bacon and Marshmallows: The Story Behind Pork. The society had been coordinating the Quit Stalling campaign to see the elimination of sow gestation stalls from Canada's pork industry. In February 2007, Canada's largest pork producer Maple Leaf Foods, announced that they will phase out the use of these stalls over the next 10 years. Elaine Hughes - Stop the Hogs Coalition (Archerwill, SK) - Elaine appeared on the program on March 23, 2006 during our broadcast titled "Bacon and Marshmallows: The Story Behind Pork". At a meeting held in Archerwill on April 9, 2003, it was learned that North East Hogs/Big Sky Farms Inc. was proposing to establish a 5000-sow mega hog operation somewhere in the Tisdale/Archerwill area. The coalition is a group of concerned ratepayers of the Rural Municipalities of Barrier Valley and Ponass Lake that are opposed to this proposal. We hear an update on this issue. Cathy Holtslander - Beyond Factory Farming Coalition (Saskatoon, SK) - The BFF promotes livestock production for health and social justice. They promote livestock production that supports food sovereignty, ecological, human and animal health as well as local sustainability and community viability and informed citizen/consumer choice. They recently authored The Citizens' Guide to Confronting a Factory Farm. Faye Street - General Manager, Kootenay Livestock Association, (Cranbrook, BC) - Faye first appeared on the program in May 2006 for our broadcast titled "Slaughterhouses on the Butcher Block?". The KLA is a registered society whose members are livestock producers in the East and West Kootenay region of BC. They promote the beef cattle industry in the Kootenays as a viable and valuable resource. The association has been working to respond to new provincial meat inspection regulations that threaten the future of the small-scale livestock industry. We hear an update on this issue. Don Davidson - Project Manager, Meat Industry Enhancement Strategy, BC Food Processors Association (Vancouver, BC) - The BC Meat Industry Enhancement Strategy (MIES) was formed in 2004 to manage new provincial meat inspection regulations and the subsequent transition for processors across the province. It was developed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries in conjunction with industry and the BCFPA.

In September 2004, the province of British Columbia enacted new meat inspection regulations that were set to come into effect by September 2006. That deadline has since been pushed to September 2007. Regulations will see all slaughterhouse operations fall under provincial and federal liceneses (about 5% of operations in BC are unlicensed). The province declares that these regulations will "strengthen public safety" and "provide new opporutnities for the marketing and sale of BC produced meat." Critics argue that the new Meat Inspection Regulations fail to address safety concerns such as Mad Cow (BSE) and Avian Flu, and threaten vital local agricultural economies and jobs. Guests Faye Street - General Manager, Kootenay Livestock Association, Cranbrook, BC - The KLA is a registered society whose members are livestock producers in the East and West Kootenay region of BC. They promote the beef cattle industry in the Kootenays as a viable and valuable resource. Faye also sits on the Regional Subcommittee for the Meat Industry Enhancement Strategy of the British Columbia Food Processors Association (BCFPA). Faye was also joined by Wayne McNamar - Project Coordinator for the Kootenay Livestock Association. Dave Anderson - Legendary Meats, Slocan Park, BC - Serving a vast area throughout the Central Kootenay region of British Columbia, the slaughtering operation of Legendary Meats has now closed due to these new regulations. Eric Boulton - Somerset Farm, Gabriola Island, BC - Operating their farm since 1948, Eric has operated one of the only facilities on Gabriola that slaughters animals for food. He awaits approval as to whether costly changes to his operation will grant him a license. Richard Yntema - North Okanagan Game Meats, Enderby, BC - Richard's business specializes in raising specialty meats such as Deer (Venison), Wild Boar and Lamb. He is currently in the process of restructuring his operation to meet new regulations. Michael McBane - National Coordinator, Canadian Health Coalition, Ottawa, ON - The Canadian Health Coalition is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting and expanding Canadaâ??s public health system for the benefit of all Canadians. The CHC was founded in 1979.