Most know that the conditions for dairy cows on factory farms are cruel and inhumane in many ways. But how about the so-called humane alternatives? That’s what everyone is asking READ ON

By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare, Health and Nutrition
Most know that the conditions for dairy cows on factory farms are cruel and inhumane in many ways. But how about the so-called humane alternatives? That’s what everyone is asking READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Food Products, Resources
Once we understand that all dairy production depends upon exploiting the reproductive systems and mothering of other animals, we can make the decision to stop supporting this cruel and greedy READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Animal Products and Ethics
The niche “humane” dairy sector is working to popularize the notion of “slaughter-free” dairy, with perhaps the most well known model being Ahimsa Dairy, a Hare Krishna initiative in which READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Ethics, Featured Articles
Slaughterhouse journalist Upton Sinclair once wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” But while it may be READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Featured Articles
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
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
Former slaughter-free dairy farmer and cheesemaker Andrea Davis had a change of heart after recognizing that her work, like all dairy farming, depended on bringing more and more babies into the READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Featured Articles, Health and Nutrition, Photo Galleries
For many people, ditching dairy is only moderately difficult; for others, it isn’t hard at all. But for some it’s a real obstacle; one of the most consistent objections to READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories
Our dairy fact sheet is intended as a well-researched snapshot of the dairy industry, highlighting little-known, shocking and abusive standards of animal handling and use that even the vast majority READ ON
By Calen Otto | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
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
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Farm Animal Investigations, Featured Articles
Voltaire once wrote, “If we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities,” and nowhere is this principle seen more clearly than in the billion dollar lies and bizarre cruelties of the READ ON
By Calen Otto | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Animal Products and Ethics
National Geographic Wild recently debuted a new TV docuseries called “The Hatcher Family Dairy” about life on a Tennessee dairy farm that has been exploiting cows for 175 years. Read READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
The dairy industry has most people believing that cow’s milk, and the cheese, yogurt, butter, ice cream and other products derived from it, are “natural” for us to consume. But READ ON
By Anna Pippus | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
With increasing consumer awareness of the cruelties inherent in dairy farming, and medical experts confirming the negative impacts of dairy on human health, the dairy industry is getting desperate. Not READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Free Press Newsletter
Chicago, IL – Free From Harm, in cooperation with Mothers Against Dairy, organizes the third in a series of rallies in response to the animal abuse cases at Fair Oaks READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Ethics
Last Thursday, I published an article on a breaking investigation from Animal Recovery Mission, in which they exposed horrific, widespread and long term abuse on a dairy farm that supplies READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Rights
Note: This is part 1 of a 2 part feature. Please read part 2 here. The Biggest Undercover Dairy Investigation in History – Fair Oaks Farms and Coca Cola from READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Health and Nutrition
“The 9 million cows in America, for the most part, are not healthy. Half the herds in America have cows affected with bovine leukemia virus, half the herds have cows READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
Farmed animals care about their babies, and include some of the most devoted mothers in the animal kingdom. Yet animal farming is fundamentally built on the destruction of motherhood. Every READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Dr. Campbell spent his entire childhood, into adulthood, living and working on his family’s dairy farm, and undertook the China Study with the belief that animal protein was an essential READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
Artificial insemination (A.I.) is the most common method of breeding dairy cows in the United States, accounting for nearly 80% of all dairy cow pregnancies. (1) Like all mammals, cows READ ON