Animal News You Can Use: Exposing truths and rethinking our opinions

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Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer
published a column today
that’s really worth a read. The politically
conservative author and commentator whose column is syndicated in more
than 400 newspapers writes, of animals, that he’s “convinced that our
great-grandchildren will find it difficult
to believe that we actually raised, herded and slaughtered them on an
industrial scale — for the eating.”

While on the topic of op-eds, if you think taking
shorter showers is the cure for California’s drought problem, I offer
some thoughts for your consideration in an op-ed I published in the
Sacramento Bee this week.

And it was a big week for investigations, with
Compassion Over Killing
releasing a North Carolina chicken slaughter exposé in the midst of a pending ag-gag bill there, and

Mercy For Animals
releasing a Colorado pig factory exposé.

So it’s no surprise that interest in plant-based eating is on the rise, which is why Wendy’s is now

test marketing
a black bean veggie burger in Ohio! Good thing the plant-based food companies are starting a

trade group
, too.

P.S.
Video of the week
: Have you ever seen chickens chasing blueberries?