Compassion Over Killing’s gut-wrenching investigation of Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest chicken producer, prompted groundbreaking firsts in the protection of broiler chickens. Nine former employees of have been convicted of 22 counts of animal cruelty.
CA State Senate is considering Assembly Bill 485 called the Pet Rescue & Adoption Act which would prohibit the sale at pet stores of dogs, cats, & rabbits, & encourage retailers to facilitate adoptions of animals from local shelters instead. TAKE ACTION!
For more than a century federally protected wild horses made their home in the Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Territory. In a major legal victory, an ALDF lawsuit filed in 2014 has blocked the federal government’s plan to remove protections for the territory.
Connecticut enacted a law that made it the first state to allow judges to appoint lawyers and law students as advocates for dogs and cats in cases of cruelty, abuse and neglect.
Last year, Surge hosted the Official Animal Rights March in London. This year will be even bigger, and the march is going global: solidarity marches are taking place in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Bucharest, and Cluj-Napoca. Will you be there?
Hereditary Chief Ernest Alexander Alfred, along with a group of First Nations people, have peacefully occupied the Marine Harvest salmon farm, Swanson Island. "We have no food fish again this year, our wild salmon runs are collapsing..."
English firefighters rescued 18 baby pigs and two sows from a burning barn. To thank them the farm manager sent a collection of sausages made from the very pigs they had saved. "We got to sample the fruits of our labors!" the crew wrote on Facebook.
It's been revealed Impossible Foods tested a key ingredient in its flagship product the Impossible Burger on rats. FDA questioned the safety of the ingredient heme but new ingredients do not require their approval if companies opt for "self-affirmation."