ShopKind, Temple Grandin’s PR Spin, and the Industry’s Never-Ending Excuses | Rising Anxieties

This week’s Rising Anxieties discusses ASPCA’s “humane” shopping guide which has the industry in quite a tizzy, dismantles Temple Grandin’s feel-good slaughterhouse “culture” story, exposes the industry squeezing yet another product out of exploited cows, shreds the myth that farmers are the real victims of subsidy policy, and tracks the fights against factory farming still being waged in the Senate and at the ballot box.

• ASPCA’s ShopKind guide may still treat animal exploitation as negotiable but is driving the industry nuts nonetheless 
• Temple Grandin’s “culture has improved” claim ignores that abuse is baked into slaughterhouses whether or not anyone’s watching
• The dairy industry’s new colostrum cash grab is one more way cows’ bodies are being commodified
• Farm Babe’s subsidy defense conveniently ignores how taxpayer money keeps the exploitation machine running
• The Save Our Bacon Act and Oregon’s animal agriculture ballot measure show the fight against factory farming is far from over

 

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