Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years. Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Articles by Jim Webster

Free range chickens

CAST report finds no advantages to free-range poultry, cage-free eggs

Free-range poultry and cage-free eggs may command higher prices in the supermarket but they offer consumers little or no demonstrable benefit in food safety or quality, animal health and welfare or healthful food, a panel of scientists concluded after a review of a battery of research papers they called "inconclusive and often contradictory."
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Veal Calves

Animal terrorism eases; activists shift to video exposés

Although outright sabotage of livestock operations and animal research facilities has declined in the U.S. since enactment of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) in 2006, the threat of “animal rights” extremists remains. according to a former mink raiser whose Washington-state operation was put out of business by a 2003 raid.
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