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[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

Urgent: Sign the petition! Tell @alexandre_farm dairy to stop #humanewashing. In a new @farmforward investigation, we uncovered systematic & widespread animal cruelty, corruption, & fraud at this so-called “humane” & “organic” dairy. Take 30 seconds now: https://t.co/25Y9MCmzsn

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

The House-passed Farm Bill includes the "Save Our Bacon Act" — a provision that would gut 600+ state laws on animal welfare, food safety & disease control. Speak up before it hits the Senate. Sign the petition:

https://t.co/Yi7pXZLaDj

[Andrew deCoriolis @AndrewRdeC]

Factory farming is a hotbed for diseases. Researchers just found that a virus common in farmed shrimp can cause eye infections and blindness in humans. Raising billions of animals in crowded, polluted conditions causes spillover and makes us sick

https://t.co/AwHaifHQ99

[Andrew deCoriolis @AndrewRdeC]

Pigs are incredibly smart, social animals. Giant pork companies and their allies in Congress are trying to override California, Massachusetts, Ohio and Florida etc from passing laws prevent keeping pregnant pigs in cages so small they can't turn around. Thanks @IAmPoliticsGirl

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

USDA has extended its pause on loans for manure digesters, citing high delinquency rates.

Big Ag calls them climate solutions. But Farm Forward's Andrew deCoriolis says the evidence shows they're driving factory farm *expansion*, not climate progress.

https://t.co/zgkkdgnzdE

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

Wild Fork Foods markets itself as a craft butcher w/ "hand-selected" meats from "lush grasslands."

What they leave out is being owned by JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, tied to Amazon deforestation, child labor, and a 3,800-worker strike this year.

https://t.co/TsZChvPGhx

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

Who's inspecting your meat? 775 fewer people than before.

Last year, USDA cut 18% of its workforce. Food safety complaints jumped 40%. 58 mil lbs of corn dogs recalled, 7 multistate outbreaks w/ 4 linked to Listeria, 250 illnesses & 140 hospitalizations.

https://t.co/SUnaWg3HNe

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

Famous animal welfare scientist Donald Broom said that confining pigs in gestation crates is “much worse than severely beating an animal.” So it says a lot that some meat industry groups, pork companies, and members of Congress are fighting to defend the practice. New story:

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

A new CDC report confirms H5N1 bird flu can spread from cats to humans. A vet who examined an infected cat tested positive for antibodies, with zero symptoms to note. Risk to the average pet owner remains low.

https://t.co/eedjoWSylH

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Footage reviewed by The Times shows a worker from a calf ranch in the Central Valley pulling a calf by the nose with pliers. It shows two workers removing the budding horns of a calf with a hot iron. The footage was collected by the group Direct Action Everywhere. https://t.co/ErjibMibcw

[Andrew deCoriolis @AndrewRdeC]

Victory! @alecsicecream dropped sustainability & welfare marketing after pressure from @FarmForward. Why? Their supplier, Alexandre dairy was lying. When we uncovered abuse and deception by Alexandre, Alec's now has to admit their marketing was deceptive https://t.co/7cBxVSrRBf

[Andrew deCoriolis @AndrewRdeC]

Thanks @krystalball & @ggreenwald for talking about the horrible anti-democratic "Save Our Bacon" provision in the Farm Bill. Call your Senator and ask them to vote "no" on the Farm Bill if it's included. Bad for farmers, consumers, animals https://t.co/k9xNn83SWT

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

The House-passed Farm Bill contains a provision that would gut over 600 state agricultural laws, including the "Save Our Bacon" act. As our executive director put it: "This shows the power of the pork lobby." Now the fight moves to the Senate.

https://t.co/ShoiRFCslq

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Despicable: the House just passed a farm bill that includes the SOB Act to keep pigs imprisoned in crates.

Our last hope is to keep this out of the Senate farm bill. Call your senators at [phone] and tell them NO farm bill bill with the Save Our Bacon Act in it.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill.

The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates.

We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House.

Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive.

The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at [phone] and tell them to vote NO.

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

Iowa is at the center of a national push by fossil fuel companies and meat and dairy companies to expand manure biogas. The industry calls it clean energy. We call it what it is: a Big Ag subsidy that only locks in factory farming.

https://t.co/FgTPQCxMWO

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

Polls show that people really underestimate meat's wide-ranging environmental impact. So here are some charts I've made over the years that show just had bad meat is for the planet. Let's start with efficiency:

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

Fish farming has been marketed as a climate-smart choice but the science tells a different story.

Hidden emissions, destruction of carbon sinks, and misleading consumer messaging are part of the story that gets left out.

Read the full breakdown here: https://t.co/Dx1RmwEBe9

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

USDA extended its pause on funding factory farm gas projects through 2026, citing financial risk. A step in the right direction but for the wrong reasons.

https://t.co/0FsS676DOT

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

@Costco is pushing back in court against salmonella claims but our research is at the heart of this case.

Farm Forward found their Nebraska plant fails USDA safety standards 92% of the time. 157 million chickens a year. The data speaks for itself.

https://t.co/YT4excy9aA

[Farm Forward @FarmForward]

@panerabread promised "no antibiotics ever" and humanely-sourced ingredients. Then quietly walked it back, saving $21 million, without telling customers.

So @animaloutlook just filed a lawsuit against Panera for failing to uphold its own standards.

https://t.co/T7T9xT2RzQ