Animal welfare

Victory! Governor McCrory Vetoes North Carolina Ag-Gag Bill

by Vandhana Bala - May 29, 2015      Today, in a victory for farmed animals in North Carolina and nationwide, North Carolina governor Pat McCrory vetoed the controversial “Ag-Gag Bill,” designed to punish whistleblowers who document and expose criminal activity at North Carolina’s factory farms and slaughterhouses.      The ag-gag bill was opposed by the overwhelming majority of North Carolina residents, as well as animal protection, food safety, environmental, and civil liberties [Read more...]

US taxpayers pay for baby monkeys to be bred for mental illness

baby monkey wrapped in blanket PETA

US taxpayers pay $16 billion dollars each year on deadly and cruel experiments to animals. This year alone, dozens of BABY monkeys at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory in Maryland will be bred to be prone to mental illness. By strengthening PETA's work you can help save more than 100 million animals. Recently PETA's work has freed elephants from the cruel existence in circuses as Ringling Brothers will stop using elephants in their circus acts. Ticket sales for circuses are [Read more...]

Mercy for Animals exposes sickening animal abuse

From: Pramoda Chitrabhanu... Once again, a brave whistleblower with Mercy For Animals has exposed sickening animal abuse in the poultry industry. A couple weeks ago, we showed you how a major chicken supplier for Gordon Food Service—the largest private foodservice distributor in the U.S.—routinely tortures millions of animals. Now, we’re releasing disturbing hidden-camera video from inside the largest poultry producer in Canada—Maple Lodge Farms. The graphic video [Read more...]