This is not an exhaustive list of everything, but we must be armed with facts. Animals suffering horrors of incomprehensible magnitude and scale is a new thing humans made, and it is something humans can fight against.

1920's Mass production of animal meat began (Britannica)

1940's-Penicillin bulk production allows animal agriculture operations to overcrowd animals and raise them indoors in factory farms

1980s first identified cases of BSE in Pitsham Farm in Sussex England

1985/6 NRC publications on dog and cat food nutrient requirements

1986 federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act removes forced retirement/max age

1989, Feb 26 CBS News published a segment on daminozide use on apples, and claimed daminozide to be carcinogenic and harmful to adults and children based on preliminary studies

*Caused apple sales to decline 60% nationwide, resulting in $100M loss.*

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*Apple growers sued CBS, but failed to present the proof that CBS's claims were dubious as required under Trade Libel Laws*

(In response, lobbyists affiliated with the agricultural industry campaigned for stricter trade libel laws specific to agricultural products. They argued that agricultural products deserved special protections because of their perishability: they might spoil before the truth of claims regarding their safety had been verified.

As a result, thirteen states adopted food libel laws, which offer larger settlement sums than regular trade libel laws and, unlike trade libel laws, often place the burden of proof on a case's defendant, rather than its plaintiff.

Later research and reporting confirmed that daminozide is a carcinogen (1994)

So literally laws were passed to protect agriculture companies due to a case of correct reporting that may have spared Americans from the carcinogenic effects of daminozide, which will culminate in a generation (\\\~30 years) of chilling ag-gag and food libel laws protecting agriculture from liability for crimes and harming the public under the false premise that CBS News harmed apple sales with lies, which set the legislative framework for companies to literally be insulated from feeding kids carcinogens.)

1989, Nov 14 EPA makes it illegal to use daminozide on US Food Crops

1990s- emergence of Ag-gag laws in response to ALF, Europe & Canada freaking out over BSE outbreaks

1990-AAFCO establishes cat and dog nutrition guidelines for pet food

1990-Kansas is the first state to pass ag gag legislation. Overturned 2019 for 1A violation

1991-Louisiana passed food libel law

1992-Idaho passed food libel law

1992-Animal Enterprise Protection Act

1993 Jack in the Box e. coli outbreak

1994-Mississippi passed food libel law

1994-Georgia passed food libel law

1994-Colorado passed food libel law

1994-South Dakota passed food libel law

1994 Nov 26-Daminozide confirmed as a major carcinogen harmful to adults and children by completed study

1994-96 BSE outbreak crossed into humans leading to 4M cattle slaughtered and 177 people dead (UK)

1995 Tofurkey introduced

1995 Texas passed food libel law (False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act)

1995 Oklahoma passed food libel law

1995 Arizona passed food libel law

1995 First Human Fatality of BSE, 19 yr old Stephen Churchill

1996 Alabama passed food libel law

1996 Ohio passed food libel law

1996 EU imposes worldwide ban on British Beef Export that would last a decade to stem BSE outbreak

1996 AAFCO implements maximum vitamin A for dog foods

1997 US E. coli Outbreaks

1997 Topps goes bankrupt after recalling 21.7M pounds of hamburger over E.coli, the largest meat recall in US history at the time

1997 North Dakota passed food libel law

1997 US regulation prohibits feeing mammal byproducts to ruminants. (This was poorly enforced and contributed to future outbreaks (BSE). Does not prohibit feeding byproducts to pigs and chickens. This was passed as people in the UK were suffering BSE. This is Foreshadowing.)

1998 Texas Beef Group v Oprah Winfrey Ag-Gag libel laws over mad cow disease

1999 Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign begins in the UK and US