The release of horrific undercover footage taken at three crocodile factory farms owned by Hermès triggered PETA to stage provocative protests at Hermès stores in NYC, London and Paris and to c...
https://theirturn.net/2021/09/09/peta-protests-hermes-crocodile-abuse/
Surrounded by riot police, hundreds of animal liberation activists with Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) staged a protest at a duck farm and slaughterhouse in California to rescue animals in need o...
https://theirturn.net/2019/08/05/direct-action-everywhere-reichardt-duck-chez-panisse/
In Brooklyn, police officers struggled to control the chaos as an army of animal rights activists clashed with ultra-Orthodox Jews who were swinging tens of thousands of live chickens around thei...
https://theirturn.net/2015/09/26/video-activists-disrupt-kaporos-chicken-massacre/
In one of the most highly anticipated animal events of 2015, thousands of people traveled to High Falls, New York on September 5th to celebrate the grand re-opening of the Woodstock Farm Sanctuar...
In this rare moment in time when millions of people are expressing sorrow and outrage about the death of Cecil, how can we help them connect the dots between the beloved lion, who endured 40 hour...
On a trip to Spain in 2010, Aylam Orian, an actor and filmmaker from Los Angeles, stumbled upon a public spectacle that would change his life forever -- a ceremony in which dozens of animal right...
https://theirturn.net/2015/05/30/national-animal-rights-day/
In a speech at Yale University, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack defended the intensive confinement of farm animals and denied that abuse on factory farms is systemic, in spite of widespread evidence p...
https://theirturn.net/2015/04/14/usda-justifies-animal-cruelty
Agribusiness calls them "lagoons," but they're actually cesspools filled with the toxic waste of tens of thousands of animals in nearby factory farms. These colossal bodies of liquid sludge, whic...
City-dwellers who think they're ingesting polluted air will never complain again after reading this powerful story of what happens to a rural community when a factory farm moves in. Read more.
Animals Australia has just released two minutes of HD footage from the inside of the biggest egg supplier in the country. The eggs from this farm are certified as "Egg Corp Assured." Watch, liste...
Animal Rights News, Commentary and Calls to Action
https://theirturn.net/animal-rights-activists-tour-ma-to-promote-humane-cage-bill/
After investigating 70 rabbit farms and four slaughterhouses in Spain, Igualidad Animal (translated: Animal Equality) released undercover footage of workers slicing the throats of conscious rabbi...
In a town hall meeting, a NJ resident asked Governor Chris Christie to reconsider his veto of a bill that would have banned gestation crates, the small cages in which female pigs are confined on ...
https://theirturn.net/nj-governor-chris-christie-defends-his-veto-of-gestation-crate-ban/
Activists in 26 cities in 8 countries from an organization called Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) are conducting monthly protests against the vegan-friendly fast food chain Chipotle because they b...
https://theirturn.net/activists-protest-chipotle-in-26-cities/
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In January 2015, egg farmers in California will be required to provide 116 square inches per hen, compared to 67 square inches, which is the industry standard. In response to California's decisio...
https://theirturn.net/states-suing-california-for-banning-import-of-battery-cage-eggs/
Idaho's governor signed an "ag gag" bill outlawing the taking of photos and video in factory farms. Thanks to the elected officials who are beholden to the dairy lobby, whistleblowers are now cri...
https://theirturn.net/idahos-dangerous-ag-gag-bill-signed-into-law/
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released footage taken by an undercover investigator that shows baby pigs being fed to their mothers at a Kentucky pig factory. According to HSUS, "...
In a NY Times op-ed column about HSUS' undercover video exposing cannibalism at a Kentucky pig operation, Nicholas Kristof says that "modern factory farms have so much wrong with them," using ges...
Denmark has banned kosher and halal slaughter because the animals are not stunned before they are slaughtered. Muslim and Jewish leaders claim discrimination, but the Danish government defends th...
https://theirturn.net/denmark-says-animal-rights-come-before-religion/