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2024 Press
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Express US - Bird flu: Distressing images show dead cows rotting in the sun as cases overwhelm farms
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The Guardian - Limits on testing for bird flu in humans could pose difficulty for containing spread
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Irish Examiner - Bird flu thought to have killed Californian cows
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Daily Caller - Hundreds Of Cows Infected As Sides Of Roads Littered With Rotting Carcasses In California
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The Business Journal - Bird Flu Breaks Out at 131 Central Valley Dairies
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Daily Kos - H5N1
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Vanity Fair - Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health
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ABC 30 Action News - Dead cows on the side of the road shows aftermath of Bird Flu outbreak
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Reuters - Cows dead from bird flu rot in California as heat bakes dairy farms
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The Denver Gazette - Cows dead from bird flu rot in California as heat bakes dairy farms
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SHTF Plan - Bird Flu Is Killing So Many Livestock, Disposal Services Cannot Keep Up
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Successful Farming- Bird flu: 20 people ill, 300 herds infected since March
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KGET.com- Bird flu-infected livestock dying at high rate slowing disposal services
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NorCal Publis Media - Photos of dead cattle show bird flu is overwhelming Tulare County. How did the virus get in?
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KQED News - Passage Of Proposition 6 Could Change The Landscape Of California Prisons
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KVPR - Photos of dead cattle show bird flu is overwhelming Tulare County. How did the virus get in?
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Newsweek - 'Shocking': Bird-Flu Infected Cattle Dumped at California Roadside
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The Bureau Investigative Journalism - Cargill cows contaminated with vital antibiotics
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The Good Men Project - Cargill Meat Still Contains Critical Antibiotics, Investigation Finds
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Sentient Media - Cargill Meat Still Contains Critical Antibiotics, Investigation Finds
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The Mercury News Opinion: California’s bird flu poses existential threat in nation’s largest dairy state
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M Live - Why 6.5 million chickens were killed in Michigan this month
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SF Chronicle - Sonoma loves its farms. Activists call them factories. Could a ballot measure upend this county?
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Podchaser- 82-Kindness Is Our Honor
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Science.org - Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild
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WXPR - Milk production may lead to more human infections of bird flu, study finds
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Public News Service - Milk production may lead to more human infections of bird flu, study finds
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Growing concern over avian influenza in humans
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Vox - 19th-century animal rights activists had a lot of moxie. Here’s how to get it back
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Colorado Newsline - Ballot measure gives Denver a choice the meat industry seeks to deny
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The New York Times - Dogs Are the Best! But They Highlight Our Hypocrisy.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH NEWS - University research supports meat industry's image
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Factcheck.org - Posts Misrepresent Photo of RFK Jr. With Animal Carcass in Vanity Fair
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Vox - How public universities hooked America on meat
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CBS News - Miami-Dade County serves Miami Seaquarium with eviction notice
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News Miami - Miami-Dade County issues eviction notice to owners of Miami Seaquarium
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News Miami - Miami Seaquarium stays open after lease with Miami-Dade ends; animal rights activists call for park’s closure
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CBS News - Miami Seaquarium defies eviction order, doors remain open
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CBS News - In defiance of eviction, Miami Seaquarium continues operations while drowning in controversy
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CBS News - Miami Seaquarium owner files federal lawsuit against Miami-Dade County
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Sentient Media.Org - When Marine Parks Close, Whales and Dolphins Face Uncertain Future
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NBC Miami - Miami Seaquarium accused of ‘fear and intimidation' of workers, hindering USDA probe: Report
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NBC Miami - New USDA report paints grim picture of Miami Seaquarium
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Pet Rescue Report - Embattled Florida Seaquarium criticized for keeping orcas in captivity euthed 20-year-old sea lion Bud
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Yahoo News - 'Nobody saw this coming'; California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu
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Los Angeles Times - ‘Nobody saw this coming’; California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu
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CBS NEWS Miami - Sea lion euthanized at Miami Seaquarium, 3rd animal to die under facility's care in nearly a year
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NBC Miami - Bud the sea lion at Miami Seaquarium euthanized
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Hoodline - Miami Seaquarium's troubles deepen as sea lion bud dies ahead of USDA confiscation
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NBC Miami - Miami Seaquarium sea lion dies as it was set to be confiscated by USDA
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The New York Times - A Cruel Way to Control Bird Flu? Poultry Giants Cull and Cash In.
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World Animal Protection US - Miami-Dade County Urged to File Animal Cruelty Charges Against Miami Seaquarium
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KB Independent - Opinion: The County wants to close the Seaquarium. It can’t be soon enough
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Sentient Food - Inside the Pork Industry’s Attempts to Charm and Influence Academia
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Gulf Live - Race against time: Florida woman fights to rescue beloved tortoise from Miami Seaquarium as closure looms
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One Green Planet - Miami Seaquarium is Getting Evicted, but Where Will the Animals Go?
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All-Creatures.Org - Pitman Family Farms Received $20 million in bailouts after killing 300,000 birds en masse via heatstroke in response to avian flu, HPAI
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Fresno Bee - Opinion: Sanger poultry producer shows callous disregard for its flocks and workers | Opinion
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Yahoo News - Opinion: Sanger poultry producer shows callous disregard for its flocks and workers | Opinion
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Our Hen House - Stop Ventilation Shutdown! w/ Dr Crystal Heath
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Healthy Planet USA - Dr. Crystal Heath: Veterinarians Speaking Out On Behalf of ALL Animals
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Focusing on Wildlife - Miami Seaquarium is Getting Evicted, but Where Will the Animals Go?
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CBSNEWS - Miami Seaquarium faces eviction, but what about the animals?
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The Intercept- FEDERAL PROBES, SICK ANIMALS, AND FED-UP VETS: THE MIAMI SEAQUARIUM IS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE
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Miami Diario - Otro golpe para Miami Seaquarium: veterinarios se suman al pedido de cierre
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NBC Miami - 6 to know – Top stories of the day
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NBC Miami - Videos give closer look at Miami Seaquarium conditions as vets join call to shut it down
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Fort Atkinson Online - Bird’s Eye View: U.S. avian flu bird deaths exceed 81 million; more than 300,000 in Wisconsin; shall we plan?
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Mundo 24 - Escándalo en el Seaquarium: Veterinarios y activistas exigen cierre inmediato
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NBC Miami - Veterinarians speak out against the troubling conditions found at Miami Seaquarium
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Animals 24-7 - How 725 million chickens lost the Super Bowl, & got a bum deal in U.K. too
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East Bay Times - Opinion: Avian influenza outbreak exposes the betrayal of our values
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Mercury News - Opinion: Avian influenza outbreak exposes the betrayal of our values
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Sltrib - Opinion: There’s a scary truth behind your favorite Super Bowl snack
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Sentient Media - When Tyson ‘Depopulates’ Chickens, Taxpayers Are Left Footing the Bill
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Poultry Med - USDA allocates $1B to combat HPAI
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If Caged Walls Could Talk Podcast
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Fort Atkins Online - Nearly 80 million birds die in almost two years of bird flu
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Successful Farming - Nearly 80 million birds die in almost two years of bird flu
2023 Press
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Vox - Crystal Heath wants veterinary medicine to live up to its values
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VEGWORLD - Serve up Fun Facts at the Thanksgiving Table
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Alameda Post - Letter: No Animal Testing on City-Owned Land
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Vox - The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu
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Modern Farmer - Opinion: The EATS Act Threatens Animal Welfare and Public Health While Protecting Corporate Profits
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The Salt Lake Tribune - Wes Burdett: It’s time for the Utah State Fair to take a stand against animal cruelty
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Vox - Americans can’t afford their pets. It’s pushing animal shelters to the brink
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The Denver Dispatch - Activists show disturbing slaughterhouse gas chamber footage outside American Veterinary Medical Association Convention
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Dr. Crystal Heath | Vegan! with Sky
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The Keene Sentinel - Backers of declawing ban howl over Senate vote
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FOX 59 - New Hampshire cat anti-declaw bill (HB 231) killed under questionable circumstances
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Chicago Policy Review - Cat Declaw Bans Help Both Cats and Veterinarians
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Salt Lake Tribune - Dr. Crystal Heath: Smithfield has stranglehold on Utah and Beaver County
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The Keene Sentinel - Declawing surgery is inhumane to cats
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VOX - The bitter civil war dividing America's veterinarians
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VET RECORD - Depopulating poultry and pig farms: can it be done humanely?
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NEW YORK TIMES - Spy cams show what the pork industry tries to hide
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Animal Rights with Direct Action Everywhere's Alicia Santurio & Dr. Crystal Heath; City Council Member Addison Winslow
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WIRED - Spy cams reveal the grim reality of slaughterhouse gas chambers
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VET RECORD - Seeking the best means to an end
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VIN - Veterinarians clash over method of mass culling livestock
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NEW YORK TIMES - Rescuing farm animals should be legal
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VIN NEWS - Science does not support ventilation shutdown plus
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THE PROVINCE - Dr. Crystal Heath and Dr. Jan Hajek: Dogs can be healthy — and happy — on a plant-based diet
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INDYBAY - First-ever footage inside a US slaughterhouse gas chamber obtained at Smithfield Foods
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KZFR - Veterinarian Dr. Crystal Heath: Corruption at the AVMA
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SENTIENTISM - Veterinarians are merchants of doubt for animal ag
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EURSAFE NEWS - Living with animals through disastrous times
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LACONIA DAILY SUN - Dr. Crystal Heath: Declawing bill helps veterinarians protect animals from suffering
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COUNTRY HERALD - Possible Ban on Cat Declawing: Illinois May Join Two Other States in Outlawing the Controversial Practice
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RIVER CITIES' READER - Veterinarians support ban on declawing cats
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ROGERSVILLE REVIEW - Bird Flu carries risk of becoming the next human pandemic
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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER - Avian flu: Intensive farming facilities are breeding grounds for pathogens
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MY JOURNAL COURIER - Animals must be protected from avoidable pain, suffering
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KTLA - Veterinarians support ban on cat declawing; passes NH House vote
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FREMONT NEWS MESSENGER - Horrific methods used to 'cull' poultry with Avian flu
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CHICAGO DAILY HERALD - State Should Prohibit Declawing Cats
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PRESS RELEASE - Veterinarians Support Massachusetts Ban on Declawing Cats
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ÉCLATS - Le monde académique d’après ? Études animales, discours et politiques scientifiques au temps de la Covid-19
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ASCPA - As Avian Flu Rages On, Over 175 Groups and Veterinarians Form Broad Coalition To Endorse Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act as Farm Bill Priority
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UNCHAINED TV - The rise of animal rights trial coverage
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THE ERIC ZANE SHOW - The NBA protestors
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ST. LOUIS DISPATCH - Declawing bans are good for cats, owners and veterinarians
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PENNSYLVANIA CAPITAL STAR - When veterinarians can’t advocate for animals, everyone suffers
2022 Press
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FRESNO BEE - Livestock, poultry operations create pandemic fears. Bill to suspend growth proposed
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GUARDIAN - US bird flu outbreak: millions of birds culled in ‘most inhumane way available’
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LA TIMES - California rodeo animals face violent and deadly casualties: Broken backs, legs and skulls
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ANIMAL LIBERATION HOUR - Ep. 8 Dr. Crystal Heath
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VEGAN FTA - Stop Eating Your Patients! Why Love & Save One, Only to Kill the Other?
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KZFR 90.1 FM - the plight of the Thanksgiving turkey
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VET RECORD - Use of ventilation shutdown in the USA
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THE MERCURY NEWS - Rodeo industry cannot be trusted to act with compassion
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THE FRESNO BEE - Livestock, poultry operations create pandemic fears. Bill to suspend growth proposed
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VIN NEWS - Is criticizing ventilation shutdown harmful to veterinarians?
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DRAKE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL LAW - Not humane, not AVMA approved, and definitely not euthanasia
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ENVIRONEWS - Cruel, Mass Exterminations of Poultry by ‘Baking Them Alive’ Rising in CAFOs Across US; Activists Are Outraged
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LOS ANGELES TIMES -Banning certain rodeo equipment is a half-measure against animal cruelty
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SALT LAKE TRIBUNE - Discussions of water conservation must include the dairy industry
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HOUSE CALL VET CAFE - Vegan Vets
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GUARDIAN - US farms lobby to use ‘cruellest’ killing method as bird flu rages
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UNCHAINED TV - Utah’s controversial Animal Enterprise Bill 476, which would have destroyed many animal protections, is dead after protests.
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Booker announces legislation to hold large factory farms accountable and improve animal welfare
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Jayapal introduces animal welfare bill to prevent inhumane killing of slaughter-bound animals
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LA TIMES - California poised to buck rodeos
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - My first job was slitting the throats of chickens at a slaughterhouse. It changed me forever
2021 Press
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THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN - Local governments must transition away from animal agriculture
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TABLET - Pigs to the slaughter: the meat industry’s response to COVID-19 was a confluence of cruelty to animals and workers alike—yet the owners are doing better than ever
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EGG NEWS - Opposition to VSD+ within the veterinary profession
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OUR HEN HOUSE - Do Veterinarians Really Care About Animals? w/ Dr. Crystal Heath
2020 Press
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THE INTERCEPT - New documents reveal how the animal agriculture industry surveils and punishes critics
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SYSTEM UPDATE - Persecution by the agricultural industry
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VIN NEWS - Veterinarians question use of ventilation shutdown
Previous Press
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Glenn Greenwald reports on the freedom of information act (FOIA) documents from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-AMS) that reveal the industry’s coordinated efforts to discredit respected veterinarian and Our Honor co-founder Dr. Crystal Heath for her criticisms of factory farming practices.
Prominent podcaster Rich Roll discusses how the animal agriculture industry is shrouded in secrecy and their efforts to discredit Dr. Crystal Heath and portray her as a “dangerous extremist.”
Veterinarians, outraged by Iowa Select Farm’s use of the horrifying practice of “ventilation shutdown (VSD)” to kill pigs signed a letter and petition to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) to ask them to declassify the method. When the AVMA failed to respond, activist groups engaged in nonviolent demonstrations at AVMA headquarters and the AVMA CEO’s house.
Glenn Greenwald’s interview with Dr. Crystal Heath, a Berkeley veterinarian who experienced industry backlash after her criticisms of factory farming.
Greenwald shows how painting professionals as “dangerous extremists” is a common tactic used to discredit those voicing critical perspectives about industry practices. The industry thrives on lack of transparency, but this secrecy places public health, the environment and animal welfare at risk.
Before the USDA’s FOIA’d documents surfaced, Dr. Crystal Heath was interviewed on the Veterinary Viewfinder podcast to discuss the cyberbullying that she was facing. After recording, it would be discovered that lies about her being a “dangerous extremist” were being spread by industry group Animal Agricultural Alliance.
NBC Bay Area covered Dr. Crystal Heath’s low cost vaccination clinic offering curbside service and proper social distancing when many local clinics were overwhelmed and could not meet demand during the COVID pandemic.
Dr. Crystal Heath explains how we must work now to build a more compassionate food system. “We are facing the repercussions of our exploitative practices that harm animals, ecosystems and our fellow humans. By considering what’s in the best interest of all beings, and building a compassionate and sustainable food system, we can create a more kind and healthy world.”
KPIX covers Dr. Crystal Heath’s volunteer work in Fiji as well as her low cost spay/neuter clinic. Dr. Heath was awarded a Jefferson Award for her work helping her community.
The Time to “Paws” podcast interviewed Dr. Crystal Heath about her career in shelter medicine, paying off debt and advice for veterinarians and veterinary students.
The city of Berkeley became the first U.S. city to set a goal to shift its food purchases to 100% plant based. Dr. Crystal Heath was part of a team who worked with activists and legislators to help make this a reality and published this Op-Ed about the importance of local government divestment from animal agriculture in the Daily Cal.
Naomi Karavani of Redacted Tonight hilariously recounts the animal agricultural industry’s attacks on veterinarian Dr. Crystal Heath saying “their desperation is laughable.”
Mercy For Animals discusses the story of the United States animal agricultural industry’s coordinated efforts to discredit and silence veterinarian, Dr. Crystal Heath for criticizing industry practices.
