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Rescued Rooster Found His Flock—and Is a Huge Snugglebug

March 5, 2019March 11, 2023 by Laura Lee Cascada, posted in Farmed Animals, Rescue

Like thousands of birds who are unlucky enough to be born as males in the backyard chicken movement, he wasn't considered particularly useful. So Lucia was dumped and abandoned.

This Slaughterhouse Kills a Pig Every 5 Seconds. Soon, Many More Could Follow Suit.

April 26, 2018March 11, 2023 by Laura Lee Cascada, posted in Farmed Animals, Investigations, Petitions

His name is Scott David. But in 2015, when millions laid eyes on the footage he collected inside Quality Pork Processors (QPP), one of the fastest pig-killing facilities in the country, he was known to the public only as "Jay," an anonymous undercover investigator for Compassion Over Killing (COK)

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I’m Laura Lee Cascada, a Virginia writer, activist, and mermaid. I’ve spent my life around animals, collecting profound lessons and using those to build a more humane world around me through writing and campaigning. But as a teen, I hid away in my room for months, paralyzed by social anxiety. In college, I met my soul dog, Powder, who mirrored me by trembling in the bathtub during every storm. But then something comical would happen: she’d “woo!” out loud, marking the end of the perceived danger, and carry on.

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Rescued Rooster Found His Flock—and Is a Huge Snugglebug

This Slaughterhouse Kills a Pig Every 5 Seconds. Soon, Many More Could Follow Suit.

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