Chickens Sue Back, Canada Fumbles, and Cows Are Overheating | Rising Anxieties

This week on Rising Anxieties, Mariann Sullivan digs into a genuinely encouraging legal development (yes, really), some deeply depressing policy news from our neighbors to the north, a dairy industry propaganda machine that apparently involves a live cow, and a livestock industry reminder that “precious cargo” has nothing to do with feelings. The usual cocktail of outrage, dark humor, and the occasional glimmer of hope.

• Legal Impact for Chickens sues Foster Farms — the animal law organization leverages California’s Corporations Code to take a major poultry producer to court over documented animal abuse, in a landmark move that could open the door for similar suits
• Canada’s $2.1B food strategy ignores plant-based proteins — a first-ever national food security plan goes all-in on animal agriculture and seafood while failing to mention the alternative proteins Canada already leads the world in producing
• Dairy industry doubles down on school milk promotion — including a “mobile dairy classroom” featuring a live cow, because apparently the propaganda needs to be hands-on
• Cattle heat stress = an industry profit problem — a Meatingplace feature on “heat mitigation” reminds us that shade over feedlot pens only matters when the profits (not the animal) are at risk
• Brazil’s antibiotic oversight gap threatens EU poultry exports — Brazilian producers cry paperwork while the EU asks for basic government-level antimicrobial monitoring that Brazil simply doesn’t have

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