“I thought for a while that I could live with the hypocrisy. I thought I could be a vegan that just so happened to raise chickens for a living. But READ ON
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There is still so much to learn about this complex subject of clean meats, which the more optimistic proponents claim could save billions of animals, but there is much room READ ON
11 Abandoned King Pigeons (Squab) Rescued!
Free from Harm is working with Chicago Bird Collision Monitors on a rescue of 11 King pigeons — the white domestic variety that are raised for meat (squab) and ceremonial READ ON
Corporate Media’s Coverage of Bruce Friedrich Shows Ignorance of...
It should be of no surprise that the media finds figures like Bruce Friedrich a more “palatable” subject for indulgent feature stories like the one recently published in the New READ ON
‘Family Dairy Farms’ Destroy Families: My Dairy Tour
My hearts hurts for the forgotten, abandoned, and lonely animals that I witnessed on this “family dairy farm,” whose suffering is pushed out of sight, hidden behind the complacent shrug READ ON
We Can’t Allow the Green New Deal to Ignore Animal Agriculture’s...
For some reason, as soon as the subject of animal agriculture’s impact on climate change comes up, the substance vanishes and the denial kicks into full gear. Watching this play READ ON
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10 Mothers On Why They’re Saying NO To Dairy
As someone who researches the dairy industry regularly, I have observed over the last few years a distressing surge in pro-dairy messaging from an increasingly visible and vocal sector of READ ON
Is An Excuse-itarian Diet Keeping You From Living Your Own Values?
Colleen Patrick Goudreau’s rousing talk, “From Excuse-itarian to Vegan,” has reached nearly 100,000 viewers on youtube, and is a great tool for empowering others to live their own values of READ ON
I Visited A Small, Organic Dairy Farm to See If Animals Were Treated...
While passing a small dairy farm on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the Point Reyes National Seashore in early October, I made an impromptu visit to a small, family-owned, pasture-based, READ ON
Do Different People Really Need Radically Different Diets?
The concepts of personalized medicine and personalized nutrition have really taken off. People are eating according to their blood type, their metabolic type, their Ayurvedic constitution, and their genotype. Micaela READ ON
When I Look Inside the Trucks, I Look With My Heart
Each day that I wake up with the thought of bearing witness in mind, I feel that same knot in my chest anticipating how much suffering I will see during READ ON
What’s the Point of Keeping a Hen Who Cannot Lay Eggs?
A few years ago, I adopted a hen about whom I knew very little except that a farmer did not want her anymore because she had stopped laying eggs. The READ ON
