Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine has begun renovations on the former Lisbon firehouse and surrounding property for use as an equine welfare center. At a groundbreaking event Thursday, Maryland ...
As Congress prepares to write a new farm bill, animal welfare advocates are preparing to safeguard California’s Proposition 12 and similar laws regulating agricultural practices while also pushing to ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released standards for animal products to use the “organic label,” a move applauded by Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy. After two ...
EATS Act, factory farm biogas funding must be dead on arrival Washington, DC — House Republicans released a draft Farm Bill today, in advance of a House Agriculture Committee Markup scheduled for May ...
Over the years, state and local governments across the country have approved various laws aimed at limiting the harm to animals raised for food. Here in California, voters approved Proposition 12 in ...
The global aquaculture industry has tripled in size since the year 2000, with producers raising a mind-boggling diversity of species, from seaweeds and clams to carp, salmon and cuttlefish. Many of ...
The bottom line is we have a farm welfare program that hands out farm welfare checks, the majority of it going to corn and bean farmers. Corn and bean production agriculture is incapable of doing ...