E MAGAZINE: FROM THE KILLING FLOOR TO THE TABLE
Death on the modern factory farm assembly line is not as neat and clean as it should be. "They blink. They make noises," Ramon Moreno told the Washington Post. "The head moves, the eyes are wide and looking around." Moreno, a slaughterhouse worker in Washington State, says that on a bad day, many of the cows that reach him are still alive and even conscious, even after having gone through the "tail cutter," the "belly ripper" or the "hide puller." As Moreno puts it, "They die piece by piece."
September 29, 2004
RECORD NET: FOLLOWERS PREACH THE BENEFITS OF A MEATLESS DIET
Lodi resident Charise Vierra, a welder by trade, does her best welding job with tofu. "Tofu turkey!" exclaimed her daughter Lauren as her mother basted the family's holiday dinner favorite: a rounded mound of tofu, crumbled then compressed perfectly to simulate visually a large carcass of a turkey in repose. It is as firm and immobile as a TV anchorman's hairdo and ready for roasting.
September 21, 2004
MINNESOTA DAILY: GIVEAWAY OFFERS STUDENTS A CHANCE TO TRY VEGAN FOODS
Matthew Allen visited campus Friday looking for a job. Instead, he might have found a change in lifestyle. Allen and many other students tried vegan food Friday at a vegan food giveaway on the West Bank. "Oh, my god," Allen said in response to the taste of a Burger King veggie burger. "That's all I can say."
BBC: CHICKENS SUFFERING CLAIMS RSPCA
An advertising campaign to highlight the suffering endured by millions of chickens reared for eating in the UK is being launched by the RSPCA. The animal welfare charity seeks to focus attention on production methods used in large-scale poultry rearing.
ALTERNET: VEGAN, HEAD TO TOE
Veganism doesn't just end with the food you eat. A new generation of vegans seeks to make non-leather shoes and clothes more readily available.
September 07, 2004
SALON.COM: GOT GUILT?
Dairy workers grub for minimum wage in sickening manure pits -- so American consumers can have cheap milk and cheese.
THE STAR PRESS: HOGS ALLEGEDLY LIVE PAINFUL, STRESSFUL LIVES
Having worked at a confined animal feeding operation for nearly seven years, Rodney Walker doesn't buy industry claims that CAFOs are comfortable for pigs. "They're not as comfy as these people are making them out to be," Walker said.
September 05, 2004
L.A. DAILY NEWS: VEGANS FINALLY FIND VARIETY OF DESSERTS
No sugar? No eggs? No cream? No problem. Vegan desserts, devoid of all animal products, used to be bland concoctions that even their loyal consumers acknowledged really weren't that tasty. Since they were rarely available in supermarkets, devotees of the strict diet had to make do with homemade recipes or survive on the few crummy, crumbly cookies or unpalatable pies they ran across in the health aisle. It wasn't easy being vegan.
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS: MEAT INDUSTRY FIGHTS STRICTER REGULATIONS
Proposed regulations aimed at limiting the spread of mad cow disease will require the federal government to devise ways of disposing of more than 1.5 trillion pounds of animal products, the meat industry says. In letters to the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. meat industry argues that current regulations are sufficient to deal with the problem of mad cow disease in the United States.
