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Opinion: Rescuing Farm Animals from Cruelty Should Be Legal

February 14, 2023

New York Times

In any context other than factory farming, treating animals the way we see chickens treated in the Foster Farms slaughterhouse videos would be considered blatant cruelty. Many would also consider it cruel to stand by while someone else handled animals this way. “If there’s someone in my neighborhood watching me boil birds alive, we’d say this is monstrous behavior,” Wayne Hsiung, a founder of DxE, told me.

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Animal Rights Group Commemorates 10-Year Anniversary with Winter Park Protest

February 9, 2023

West Orlando News

Orlando is just one of dozens of U.S. locations where DxE gas chamber protests are underway. The Orlando chapter has asked community members who care about the plight of animals suffering in the US food industry to help them mark the occasion and bring awareness to their cause by joining in future protests in the area.

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Hidden Camera in U.S. Slaughterhouse Shows Horror of Gassing Pigs

February 9, 2023

Toronto Star

Ontario’s largest pig slaughterhouse, which kills an estimated 10,000 animals a day, uses [CO2 gas]. But you aren’t likely to see any undercover footage from inside that facility. In 2020, Ontario passed “ag-gag” legislation, which bans anyone obtaining access to a farm or slaughterhouse “under false pretences.”

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I Snuck into a California Slaughterhouse to Film How They Kill Pigs. It Was Horrifying

February 9, 2023

San Francisco Chronicle

The message the pigs conveyed in the gas chamber footage is clear: They are in extreme pain, and they want to live. You don’t need the Agriculture Department to tell you that. You can see and hear it for yourself.

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Footage of Pigs Screaming and Gasping for Air Projected onto Costco Building

February 7, 2023

Plant-Based News

The vast majority of people have no idea about the reality of how pigs are killed, with most countries using vague language about “humane” methods of slaughter.

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Bill Targets Removing Injured Livestock After Not-Guilty Verdict against Animal Rights Activists

February 7, 2023

Salt Lake Tribune

“Instead of taking action to end animal cruelty at these facilities, the legislature has made it incredibly clear that they care way more about protecting corporate profits and enabling animal abuse than they do about protecting the vulnerable and those who try to help them,” DxE lead organizer Almira Tanner said.

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PETA-Backed Youth Organization Protests UC Davis Researchers’ Experimentation on Captive Primates

February 6, 2023

California Aggie

“The CNPRC run by UC Davis imprisons over 5,000 monkeys for use in cruel and deadly experiments that do not benefit students,” [student and organizer Kara] Long said. “We are trying to raise awareness of their abuse and come up with alternative methods of scientific research that do not involve the use of nonhuman animals.”

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Opinion: Spy Cams Show What the Pork Industry Tries to Hide

February 2, 2023

New York Times

“It was horrible cruelty to the pigs inside the chambers,” Jim Reynolds told me. “It’s a violation of federal law.” Reynolds is one of 90 veterinarians who signed an open letter saying that the process shown in the videos probably violates federal law on humane slaughter.

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Smithfield Trial Juror Speaks Up against New Anti-Rescue Bill in Utah

February 1, 2023

Utah legislators with ties to the Farm Bureau released House Bill 114, “Theft Defense Amendments,” in direct response to the outcome of the Smithfield Trial.