AR-News: KPFK's Watchdog 5/03/04 looks at humane food standards -- John Mackay of Wholefoods, Lauren Ornelas, Paul Shapiro

[Karen Dawn]

On Watchdog, Monday May 3, we talk about efforts to ensure more humane
treatment of farmed animals. We will talk about the labels that suggest that
animals were humanely raised and try to determine what those labels mean.

Guests:

John Mackay, the founder and CEO of Wholefoods. He is vegan, and has made a
commitment to bring in a new standard of welfare certification for animal
products sold in his store.

Lauren Ornelas, Viva USA. We will talk with her about that Wholefoods
campaign and the current California campaign against foie gras.

Paul Shapiro, Compassion Over Killing. That group has taken shocking footage
and photos on farms that supposedly produce humanely raised food.

You can find out more about our guests on the Watchdog web page at:
http://www.DawnWatch.com/Watchdog.htm

Watchdog is produced by Janee Taylor and hosted by Karen Dawn. It airs
Mondays at 2pm on KPFK, the Pacifica station at 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and
San Diego, and 98.7 in Santa Barbara. If you are not in range you can listen
live on line at 2pm US Pacific Time, 5pm Eastern: http://www.KPFK.org

We will take callers and would love your participation. The call-in number
is: (818) 985-5735. That's (818) 985 KPFK

Listen if you can, and please send comments to Watchdog at KPFK.org. (I send a
huge thank you to those who already have.)
Watchdog is a 13 week series. Positive feedback will make it more likely
that Pacifica will eventually put an animal issues series on the air
permanently.

Thanks to Ted Vegvari and PVNET (http://www.pvnet.com/ ) you can now listen
on line to archived shows you wanted to hear but missed. You'll find the
shows on the Watchdog web pages cited above.

The first eight shows of the series are up there now, and this Monday's show
should be available some time Monday night.



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