Sue Blankman's eyes lit up as she scanned the rack of belts and shoes at Otsu, a nook in San Francisco's Mission District that's one of the nation's few vegan boutiques.
GLOBE GAZETTE: Ag Secretary Judge: Postville slaughter video is "disturbing"
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Patty Judge said Monday if her department had jurisdiction, she would shut down and investigate a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville that critics say makes cattle suffer needlessly.
December 04, 2004
DES MOINES REGISTER: USDA probes beef plant accused of abuse
U.S. Agriculture Department investigators are checking a kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Ia., that animal-rights activists have accused of abusing cattle.
December 01, 2004
NEW YORK TIMES: Videotapes show grisly scenes at kosher slaughterhouse
An animal-rights group released grisly undercover videotapes today showing cows in a major kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa staggering and bellowing in seeming agony long after their throats were cut.
THE PLAIN DEALER: Breeding contempt - Megafarms' toxic fumes forcing Paulding neighbors off their land
Dust has settled thickly on the dark wood furniture in the home where Bob and Diane Thornell used to live. Both have been diagnosed with brain damage, and their symptoms worsen when they linger in the neat brick house he built long before the large hog farm moved in nearby -- one of eight hog farms built in Paulding County since 1994.
