A recent Washington Post exposé confirmed what many people already suspected: The USDA does not consistently enforce humane slaughter laws.  Dean Wyatt, a Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) veterinarian, claims that FSIS ...]]> It's true, environmentalists can be a depressing bunch. Every day it seems like more reports surface about how harmful almost every action, purchase and decision we make is to the health of the natural world, which is why good news, when available, is...]]> Healthy school lunches are a tradition in American Public schools, but recent reports about questionable sources for milk and beef, and investigations that found over 20,000 schools lacked required food inspections, have left many people wondering whe...]]> For quite some time now In Defense of Animals has been following the lives of Tina, Jewel and Queenie, three Asian circus elephants who were part of the Shrine circus under the care of William Davenport. What IDA found, three sick and miserable ele...]]> I couldn't count how many products I buy that are tied to the word "organic". From bunches of lettuce, to apples, to cereal, to soymilk...even non-food items like shampoo and lotion -- they're all labeled organic. And big agribusiness knows that if s...]]> Both the United States Commission on Civil Rights and Congress admit that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a long and well-document history of discriminating against minorities in connection with farm credit and benefit programs....]]> In Defense of Animals (IDA) has spent the past two years following the lives of Tina, Jewel and Queenie, three Asian elephants that were part of the Shrine Circus under the care of Will Davenport. Davenport has been cited with multiple USDA violati...]]> Despite what coal industry executives and opponents of renewable energy research would have you believe, America is running out of this filthy, costly, fossil fuel- and not a moment too soon. Businessweek Magazine recently reported that "the federal g...]]> This week a story in the Washington Post brought to light cruel and unusual training methods used on baby elephants at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is run under Feld Entertainment. Former elephant handler Sam Haddock came fo...]]> Sadly, millions of animals who are too sick, weak or injured to stand, known as “downers,” are forced to make their way into the slaughterhouse by any means necessary. While there has been a victory for cattle with the USDA’s adop...]]>