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Don't Eat Baby Animals ... They Just Don't Taste Good

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:42:43 CDT

Josh Ozersky is a James Beard award-winning food writer, but he's no morality cop: In an essay for Time , he admits to eating our planet's wee creatures: "veal cutlets, suckling pigs, spring lambs, game hens." And he has come to terms with that. But he does want to share one...

Activists Win Battle in War on Factory Farms

Kevin Spak — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:41:59 CDT

Ohio’s biggest farms have agreed to a series of new restrictions on how they confine their animals, hoping to prevent a potentially losing ballot standoff with the Humane Society and other animal rights groups. Under the deal, no new egg farms will be built using extreme caging methods, and all...

Video Sting Shuts Down Cruel Slaughterhouse

Kevin Spak — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:51 CST

The Humane Society released more video yesterday from its hidden camera sting of Bushway Packing, after the USDA shut down the organic veal slaughterhouse on Friday. The footage, shot this summer, isn’t for the queasy; calves too weak to walk are dragged, kicked and shocked repeatedly, among other abuses. “We...

UK Veal Now Cool, Not Cruel

Caroline Zimmerman — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:21:00 CST

Veal is the new guilt-free meat in Britain, and everyone from top chefs to farmers and animal activists is pushing consumers to eat up . Anti-cruelty groups largely eliminated veal from the UK diet in the '90s, and as a result, dairy farmers slaughter half a million male calves and export...

Enjoy the Veal, Hold the Guilt

Sam Gale Rosen — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:13:15 CDT

Veal is back, says the Times , thanks to humane ranching methods. You're still eating baby cows, of course, but the tiny crates that once confined them—provoking a 20-year-long boycott—are giving way to to open pastures where they hang with mom. Or at least pens where they walk around...