After the cancellation of the World Pork Expo, PETA plans to display a new billboard, with a anti-pork production message, near the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
An Iowa-based community activist org and a Washington-based environmental group have filed a lawsuit against the state of Iowa alleging they have deprived residents of their right to clean water.
The Iowa Legislature has sent to the governor a bill designed to prosecute people who get hired at a livestock farm in order to record animal living conditions.
The move by National Beef – the fourth largest beef packer in the U.S. – to purchase Iowa Premium adds additional 1,100 head per day of packing capacity to the company.
A farmer and a farm worker are on probation after applying liquid manure onto a field that resulted in runoff into a nearby stream. The farm was fined $50,000.
A federal judge struck down an Iowa law that made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm to conduct an animal cruelty undercover investigation on Wednesday.
Authorities say a south-central Iowa man was charged with livestock neglect after failing to euthanize a cow whose partially delivered calf was frozen.
