By Theresa Lucas McMahan, PTH Executive Director
The May 18th, 2023, ruling from California’s 5th District Appellate Court was a momentous victory for the Fresno Zoo, affirming its commitment to animal welfare and debunking misconceptions surroun...
By Jaclyn Krymowski for Protect The Harvest
If recent drought, inflation, supply chain disruptions, and regulatory overreach haven’t been challenging enough to America’s farmers and ranchers, pork producers and consumers have now been dealt a sig...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently proposed milk reductions for its Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a program that currently serves more than six million mothers, infants and c...
By Protect The Harvest Advisory Committee member, Gary Baise, in FarmProgress
Justice Kavanaugh’s partial concurring and partial dissenting opinion suggests how the case should have been handled to support ag across the states.
Last fall, a story went viral about a California 4-H member who refused to give up her 4-H market goat after it had been sold at auction. The girl’s mother was quoted in the Sacramento Bee newspaper saying her daughter bonded with the goat “as sh...
Over the past few decades, Americans have been besieged, battered and bullied by those whose ideological orientation has kept animal protein (i.e. meat) in the crosshairs of anti-meat rhetoric. In particular, animal rights and environmental extrem...
This piece is written by a sophomore at Oklahoma State University studying Agricultural Communications and Agribusiness.
Picture this: you are at a restaurant trying to order a rice bowl for lunch and you want to know the ingredients. More specif...
Protect The Harvest is disappointed with the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to allow California’s ill-conceived, misguided, and punitive Proposition 12 to stand. By doing so, SCOTUS sent a clear message to government a...
Animal Rights Group AWI Unveils Goals for 2023 Farm Bill
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) recently released its desired list of goals for the upcoming 2023 Farm Bill. The extensive list covers a broad range of objectives from farm animals and w...
By John M. Simpson, Duane Morris Law
The Animal and Plant Inspection Health Service (APHIS) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture sub-agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) , 7 U.S.C. § 2131, et seq....
Water is essential to sustaining life, and it is especially important to farmers and ranchers who work to feed the world. Crucial water issues are threatening crops and livestock worldwide. With the world population estimated to grow to 9.8 billio...
The great American writer, cultural observer and scholar H.L. Mencken once stated: “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve.”
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