Take Action: Speak Out Against Walmart's Cruelty To Pigs

Recognizing their inherent cruelty, major food providers, including McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Chipotle, and major grocery retailers, including Safeway, Kroger, Kmart, Costco and Whole Foods, have all started demanding their suppliers do away with these cruel crates. But Walmart continue to support blatant animal abuse by selling pork from suppliers who confine pigs in tiny crates.

In fact, the pork sold at Walmart comes from factory farms where pregnant pigs spend nearly their entire lives locked in narrow, metal gestation crates—cages barely larger than their own bodies.

Please take 30 seconds and sign this petition to help put an end to this horrific practice!

CDC Warns Of Swine Flu Risk At State Fairs

An increase in swine flu cases has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning Americans to be especially careful around state and county fairs this summer. One more reason to not support zoos, circuses, rodeos or fairs!

Animal Rights Group Targets Wal-Mart Over Pig Suppliers

The animal rights organization Mercy for Animals has released disturbing footage taken at a Minnesota pig plant. The video is part of a campaign to get Wal-Mart to stop using suppliers of pork or pork products that have come from pig farms that use gestation crates that are used to keep pregnant sows separated from the general pig population of a factory farm. The campaign underscores the power activists have to pressure companies to stop using inhumane suppliers.

U.S. Pig And Cattle Producers Trying To Crush Egg Bill

The United Egg Producers, which represents most of the country’s egg production, says standards for chicken housing is necessary. But if the standards are voluntary, says the UEP, any farmer who ignores them and sticks with old-style cramped cages will be able to sell eggs more cheaply and put his competitors out of business.

Diseases From Animals Hit 2 Billion People A Year

The exploding global demand for livestock products means the problem is likely to get worse.  Some 27 percent of livestock in developing countries showed signs of current or past infection with bacterial food-borne disease.