The latest news in animal rights and plant-based diets:
Mercy for Animals recently posted amateur video documenting cases of cruelty at a Tyson Foods plant in Tennessee. The poultry industry has been encouraged by many animal rights groups to change they way they process & breed the 8 billion chickens we consume in the U.S. Read more and view the video here: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/
Santa Cruz Biotechnology must pay a $3.5 million penalty for animal welfare violations. They were sued under California's new animal cruelty law and unfair competition law. The facility can no longer use animals covered by the Animal Welfare Act in their research. Read more here: http://aldf.org/press-room/press-releases/cost-of-animal-cruelty-skyrockets-animal-research-facility-to-pay-unprecedented-3-5-million-penalty-over-animal-welfare-violations/
The Center for Biological Diversity has created Extinction Food Labels to mirror the nutritional facts labels on many food items. The labels reveal the REAL cost of what we eat, including the costs of carbon emissions, habitat loss, and water pollution. Learn more at http://extinctionfacts.org
Aired June 12, 2016
