18 Ways US Chickens Are Murdered (tags)
They are run into chippers, dropped into eviscerators, crushed into paste, crushed on loading docks, die of thirst, of freezing, of baking, are smashed in tornados, strangled on farms, buried alive by bulldozers, dropped into streets, die of total abandonment neglect
Corona, capitalism and nature (tags)
"Radical reforms are needed. The policies of the last forty years must be reversed. The government must play a stronger role in the economy. It must no longer regard public services as costs but as investments. Redistribution is back on the agenda."
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, The Washington Post, Whole Foods, Etc (tags)
Washington Post reporters are to be commended for their tremendous investigative work in uncovering details of Donald Trump regime crimes. Their work is a separate issue from the record of Jeff Bezos
NPR's David Greene & Alison Aubrey along with David Ludwig Shill For Factory Farm Eggs (tags)
Both National Public Radio and Harvard University are heavily invested in slaughterhouses and factory farms. Factory farms are concentration camps whose egg and chicken flesh products have many toxins
Iowa Republican Senator Grassley And Methods Of Chicken Murder In the US (tags)
Through smashing, suffocation, electrocution, neckbreaking and other means, innocent baby and adult chickens in the US die by the trillions
Video: Humans Need Not Apply, 15 min (tags)
The future that is decentralized and regional seems marginalized in late stage capitalism of exploding inequality, selective perception, myths and fairy tales. Mechanization and digitalization are realities. Once 90% of the population worked on farms; now only 2% work on farms.
How Innocent Birds Are Treated In Many Factory Farms (tags)
9 birds to a 3x1 ft cage, deaths by roasting or freezing with power outages in metal sheds, tornado vulnerability, never spreading their wings pollution, toxins to workers, 6 month old eggs sold, etc
Maggot Eating Promoted By National Public Radio (tags)
NPR's continuing program to desensitize us all to violence in myriad forms.
Chicken Haiku: A List Of Factory Farm Atrocities (tags)
From baby chicks in California sent through a chipper to chickens baking to death in an electricity outage in an Arkansas factory farm
ALF Frees Dozens of Pheasants from Oregon Game Farm (tags)
Animal Liberation Front frees birds from farm outside Portland.
Leaked Document: ALF-Prevention And Security Manual For Fur Farms (tags)
20-page document gives inside look at how fur farmers prevent raids by the Animal Liberation Front.
Repeal NAFTA/WTO is Ron Paul’s Answer to Undocumented Immigration & Domestic Job Losse (tags)
Part of promoting non-interventionist foreign policy is allowing for foreign nations to have self-determination and autonomy in their own economy. The greatest limiting factor to achieving democracy and self-determination in any nation is an unstable economy caused by unequal trade laws. This inequality between trade partners can occur because of different resource qualities or quantities or as a result of trade agreements that benefit one nation above another.
STOP S. 510! Protect Independent Organic Farms! (tags)
If passed without amendments, S. 510, or the "Food Safety Modernization Act" would prevent independent organic farmers from growing and transporting their own food without being burdened by unreasonable regulations that do not apply to the larger corporate farms.
Legislation for Greater Agribusiness Empowerment (tags)
food safety off the table in these bills
Stop the ICE Raids Now! Full Legalization for All! Alto a los Despidos Masivos - Stop the (tags)
Marcha for Reforma Migratoria - March for Immigration Reform! Los Trabajadores de Overhill Farms, American Apparel, Farmers Johns y otros llaman a todas las organizaciones de Derechos Humanos e Immigrantes y otras a Demandar que Presidente Obama Pare las multas a Patrones y verificacion de documentos que resultan en despidos masivos. The workers of Overhill Farms, American Apparel, Farmers Johns and others are calling to all the organizations of Human Rights and Immigrantes and others to Demand Obama to Stop Sanctions to employers, and employee verification due to the mass firing of people.
Obama stop I-9 Audits and E-Verify (tags)
HR 2749 - A Stealth Agribusiness Empowerment Act (tags)
Obama targets small farmers for destruction
Swine-flu outbreak could be linked to Smithfield factory farms (tags)
Research indicates the significant role played by factory farming in the latest outbreak of swine flu virus. Smithfield Foods operates immense hog raising factory farms in Perote, Mexico where close conditions encourage contagious bacterial diseases and viruses to rapidly breed and proliferate.
I thought Fuel was very well-made, important, and informative--there's a lot to absorb. I don't agree with every point of view expressed in the film, but I realize the movie has to communicate to diverse people.
Zapatista University Chapter 1: The World-Farm (tags)
Scientists have been hard at work figuring out what's gone wrong with humanity's relationship to the environment. But they never write books for the politically marginalized people who suffer the effects. So now I write science books for activists. The complete book can be found on my website.
California Water War Enters New Front with the 'Battle of the Reports' (tags)
The Public Policy Institute of California released a report advocating the construction of a peripheral canal on the California Delta, while two environmental groups, EDF and NRDC, released two separate reports recommending ways to provide enough water to both restore salmon and serve California's water needs.
INDUSTRIAL AGRIBUSINESS OPPONENTS OF PROP 2 WAGE CAMPAIGN AGAINST STOPPING ANIMAL CRUELTY (tags)
Campaign finance reports show opposition money comes from factory farmers with history of animal cruelty abuses and consumer fraud
South Central Farm Shows Alternative to Industrial Ag's Monocultura (tags)
The farming methods using crop diversity were evidenced at south central farm prior to the destruction by the L.A. Sheriff's bulldozers. SC farm's 'milpa' method is our escape from dependency on increasingly toxic petrochemicals used by industrial agribusiness monoculture plantations.
Analysis: Hizbullah Won't Stop at Shaba (tags)
Israel's announcement of a willingness for peace talks with Lebanon is one of the early fruits of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent visit to the region and her unexpected visit to Lebanon. French President Nicolas Sarkozy's recent visit to Lebanon and upcoming visit to Israel is also crucial here.
Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty VOTE November 2008 (tags)
November 2008 vote to help pigs, veal calves and egg-laying chickens this is so exciting!!!! my friend Kath Rogers of Animal Rescue and Protection League worked so hard gathering 800,000 signatures to get this measure on the ballot. let's get out there and vote for more humane standards and bring California into the future with at least the European standard as a minimum!!!! This is a consumer safety issue!!! Don't be confused by the language on the ballot! vote yes! to end cruelty! don't sit at home, go vote November 2008! get registered and figure out where to go!!!!!
Shocked by the Undercover Slaughterhouse Video? (tags)
HSUS' recent undercover investigation of a California slaughterhouse is making headlines around the world. Here are 5 things you can do to help end this kind of animal torture.
Why are Kids Sending Valentines to World’s Finest Chocolate this February 14? (tags)
Children and their teachers across the country are coming together this Valentine’s Day to stop child labor, child trafficking, and child slavery in the cocoa fields.
south central farms resistance still in action (tags)
kick-off for the farmers market on MLK and Alameda (the street on the north block of what used to be the South Central Farms)
Nina Planck is the author of "Real Food: What to Eat and Why.''
South Central Farms 2005 Live Concert CD with Zack De La Rocha, Son De Madera, and more.. (tags)
In November 2005 thousands came to the South Central Farms to attend a benefit concert in support of this struggle. The concert featured Zack De La Rocha with Son De Madera, Los Cojolites, Quetzal , and many others. You can download the entire LIVE compilation CD from this historical event below.
Solidarity from Canada for the South Central Farmers' (tags)
Solidarity from Canada: Never Give Up! We live in a time of great crisis, in which the very life support systems of the planet are under threat. South Central Farms offers a model that needs to be replicated everywhere, a model of restoration, of healing both the land and the human community, of urban sustainability, of possibility in a place where possibility is precious and rare.
COP WATCH REPORT: police, destruction, and fires at South Central Farms (tags)
Police , bulldozing , fires , at the South Central Farms.
South Central Farmers International Solidarity Days (July 7-10) (tags)
CALL TO ACTION Support the South Central Farmers! Save the South Central Farm & Support Small Farms Worldwide! South Central Farm International Solidarity Days July 7-10 “You are never strong enough that you don't need help.” - Cesar Chavez
Pesante Support the South Central Farmers Struggle for Land and Life! (tags)
The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante), a Filipino peasant, environmental and human rights advocacy network in the United States wholeheartedly support the struggle of 450 families in the South Central Farms that is now under the threat of land grabbing of the capitalist groups in Los Angeles.
Central Valley Earth First!ers organizing (tags)
Earth First!ers are needed to organize in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley (aka Central Valley) to bring visibility to corporate logging corporations like Sierra Pacific Industries, suburban sprawl in wetlands habitat, potential extinction of endangered species as loss of vernal pools continues, effect of toxic pesticide drift used by corporate agribusiness, dams blocking anadromous fish migrations, etc..
Animals skinned alive for USA fur market (tags)
Undercover investigators from Swiss Animals Protection/EAST International recently toured fur farms in China's Hebei Province, and it quickly became clear why outsiders are banned from visiting.
The rural movement to oust Bush (tags)
There’s more than bridges in Madison County
In Defense of Polluters: Howard Dean's Vermont (tags)
Tremblay contends that Dean "is a business man with big money. He is not a farmer. He doesn’t care about the people or the environment. He doesn’t care that the air stinks or that there are flies everywhere. He doesn’t care that his trucks ruin the roads and make it unsafe for your children to ride their bikes. He doesn’t care that he destroys your way of life, and unfortunately the state of Vermont doesn’t care either."
No More Lonesome Howl Of The White Trash Wolf (tags)
It was said of Johnny, that he never was "seduced" by the money or showmanship of it all. He never went the way of so many others, giving his music over to showmanship, in lieu of the telling of those struggling, and in poverty; outside the warm circle of pretend country--pretend simple living--pretend poverty. One can't sing nor write of , what one hasn't lived.
Israeli Army Destroys Buildings, Farms As It Leaves Gaza (tags)
Ali Zaaneen, 35, stood in the ploughed-up fields where he and his seven brothers grew cucumbers, tomatoes and okra. His four-acre farm was levelled, and nothing remains of his glasshouses. "Now I am able to go every day to my farm," he said, "but I will find nothing to harvest ... and to take to the market. What is the guarantee they will not change their minds and come back again?" he asked of the departing Israelis. "They are not far away."
Animal Liberation Front: UPDATES FROM THE FRONTLINES! (tags)
Some recent information gathered from the web (mainly from www.arkangelweb.org) on various actions carried out by the A.L.F. on behalf of the earth and animals. Thought I'd share this with others who may not have heard of or are familiar with the tactics of the Animal Liberation Front. Interesting to see what the FBI had to say in a meeting on Sept.10 2001 (info. near bottom of post. Re:. Homeland Security)
Black Supremist Mugabe blinded by anti-Whte hatred (tags)
Zimbabwe White Farmers Face Fight-Or-Flee Decision
Hizbullah: Shebaa Farms Off-limits to Palestinian Fighters, 2 Nov. 01 (tags)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is growing increasingly frustrated because of the refusal of Syria and Hizbullah to allow its fighters to participate in attacks on the Shebaa Farms.
WRFG 89.3 FM 100,000 Watts Airs Key News in Farm Crisis:Middle America's Crisis! (tags)
This is a rough transcript from today's broadcast of our 100,000 watt radio station. Heather Gray has done work in interviewing a wide range of human-rights activists. Including people who work with her at the 12 state Federation of Southern Cooperatives: an outgrowth of the Civil Rights Movement that took seed in 1967.