News outlets are predicting a coming “bacon apocalypse,” thanks to new regulations that require pork producers raising pigs or selling meat in California to treat the animals in a more humane way. While such warnings make for good headlines, as one of the articles in this week’s Weekend Reader explains, the hullabaloo misses the real issue: the terrible conditions and treatment of animals in the country’s factory farms.
Read all about it in this week’s Weekend Reader, exclusively for paying subscribers below.
