The HSUS Files Suit Against Tax Breaks for Animal Cruelty in California   Battery cages—small wire cages that confine birds so tightly they can't spread their wings—cause enormous suffering for millions of laying hens. Yet the California Board of Equalization gives California egg factory farmers a tax break for purchasing them. The HSUS filed suit this week, calling for a halt to this illegal, subsidized cruelty.  more A Century of Cruelty: The Jungle Revisited One hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle appalled the nation with its grisly account of meatpacking plants. The author—and you—might well be outraged to discover how much needless suffering continues in slaughterhouses today. more A PA Battery Egg Producer Is Charged with Animal Cruelty A humane officer has filed cruelty charges against the owner and the manager of a huge Pennsylvania egg factory farm.  Videotape and other evidence of violations of the state's cruelty law could mean fines or jail time for the defendants. more