Starting on Monday, April 12th and ending 13th, 2020, a widespread tornado outbreak affected the Southeastern part of the United States. A tornado demolished several factory chicken farms in Murray READ ON
Animal Cruelty Investigation
U.S. Chicken Farms Burying Alive Thousands of Birds; Rescuer Arrested
Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry? The Filthy Business of Fish Farming
October 9th, 2019, animal protection organization Compassion Over Killing released footage from their new undercover investigation of a salmon factory farm. The first of its kind, their investigation revealed awful READ ON
Fairlife Board Member Embroiled in First Major Abuse Investigation on Organic Dairy Farm
The Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) recently released the first ever investigation into an organic dairy in the United States and the third installment of the largest dairy investigation of all 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
The Dark and Deceptive Side of the Pet Food Industry
“Pet food” sounds animal-friendly, but behind the scenes, millions of baby chicks and adult birds are suffocated and shredded to death for pet food and farmed animal feed. Embryonic chick-sexing READ ON
“Broiler Breeder” Chickens: Their Misery Revealed
Karen Davis takes us inside the bleak and brutal world of “broiler breeder” chickens, the hens and roosters who produce the eggs that become the chicks who are slaughtered at READ ON
Before They Were Bacon: Stepping Into a Modern Day Stockyard
We give them water. Help them drink. Carefully stroke their bellies. The stockyard gives me the opportunity to look into their eyes for longer, and their desperation and pain is READ ON
Millions of Babies Are Being Stolen From Their Mothers. Does It Only Matter When They Look Like Us?
“It would be funny — if it weren’t so sad — to continually witness how desperately we try to paint a happy picture of what is inherently violent and utterly READ ON
I Visited A Small, Organic Dairy Farm to See If Animals Were Treated Better
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
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
Severed Heads of Mothers Found in Dumpster: Story & Video
As uniquely grisly as these images are, (and as singularly cruel as halal slaughter may seem), it’s important to realize that even in the best of circumstances, under the most READ ON
Cockfighting and Chicken Wings: Pleasure from Suffering
This video consists of footage taken Saturday, November 29th at Club Gallistico De Puerto Rico, the most popular public cockfighting arena on the island. I along with my partner Alejandro READ ON
Horrifying Meat Animal Research Center No Worse Than Most Farms
Before the recent damning investigative report on the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in the New York Times, few outside the beef, pork, and lamb industries had heard of READ ON
One Survivor’s Story of Whole Foods Humane Hoax
They named her Mei Hua (Beautiful Flower), the sweet little hen DxE rescued from near death inside of a living hell, a Whole Foods egg supplier. Check out this moving READ ON
May All Creatures Be Happy and Safe
The timing of my introduction to Jesse was particularly synchronous. The song Jesse sent me, Waiting for the Birds to Strike, arrived just after co-investigator Olivier Berreville and I returned READ ON
Chickens as Kaporos: A Story of Witnessing and Rescue
The following is my interview with Lori Barrett about her harrowing experience witnessing and documenting chickens used as kaporos in her New York City neighborhood. In the process, she managed READ ON
Revolting Videos of Turkey Breeding
Domestic turkeys have been bred to be so large, they cannot mate naturally, so hens are forcibly “inseminated” several times. Males are masturbated to get their semen. A “milker” at READ ON
Dog Branding Shines Light on Bigger Picture of Animal Cruelty
The recent news story of a dog in Kentucky named Felicity, who was found tied to a post and branded with a profanity, sparked an outpouring of empathy as well READ ON
The Secret Life of Poultry Products
In this gripping account of the lives of chickens raised for meat, Karen Davis connects the appalling physical environments in which these birds are raised and the pathogens that contaminate READ ON
Small Town Grocer Issues Restraining Order Against Animal Advocate
We recently learned from one of our subscribers that a local natural grocery store that also owns a yoga and holistic healing center in a small town in New Hampshire READ ON
