At hatcheries, baby turkeys are treated like unfeeling plastic toys rather than living animals who experience fear and pain. As part of standard processing, they endure excruciating mutilations without painkiller READ ON

By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
At hatcheries, baby turkeys are treated like unfeeling plastic toys rather than living animals who experience fear and pain. As part of standard processing, they endure excruciating mutilations without painkiller READ ON
By Hope Bohanec | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
There were fifteen beautiful hens living in Berkeley, California at Urban Adamah, a Jewish community center and farm. The hens had been “giving” their eggs to the community for three 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 Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
CO2 stunning of pigs, also referred to as Controlled Atmosphere Stunning, is often touted as the most humane method of rendering pigs unconscious before slitting their throats at the slaughterhouse. READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
On February 20, Indraloka Animal Sanctuary in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania got a call about a piglet in need of a home. A week earlier, a humane police officer had responded to READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
Many people have by now seen the horrifying footage from Tyson Pork that Mercy for Animals released earlier this year. And while it’s certainly the case that farms exist where READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation, Resources
Did you know that nearly 46 million turkeys are killed just for Thanksgiving every year in the U.S.? There are many misconceptions about turkeys raised for food, and many things READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
As an alternative to the horrific cruelty suffered by factory slaughtered turkeys, this farmer opened his doors to show the world what humane turkey slaughtering looks like on his farm. READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
No matter how much we may talk about kindness, no matter how much we may practice it elsewhere, as long as we demand that living, feeling individuals be harmed and READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation, Photo Galleries
Ashley Capps created this incredibly virtual tour of her experience visiting Pig Adventure on opening day, August 5th. She walks us through her visit using a photo slideshow and even READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
On August 5, 2013, Fair Oaks Farms—the largest “agritourism” destination in the country— will celebrate Opening Day of Pig Adventure, a commercial breeding facility where 2700 sows are impregnated to READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
Imagine waking from a nightmare where you were picked up by your legs and turned upside down. You thrash wildly to try to release from the grip of your captor. READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
During Toronto’s torturous heat wave this July, with temperatures soaring to some 40 degrees Celsius (that’s 110 degrees Farenheit), activists from Toronto Pig Save have mobilized to give water and READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
I found NWI Times’ coverage of Fair Oaks Farm’s so-called “Pig Adventure” both disturbing and disgusting — not just for its blatant glorification of factory farming, but in how uncritically READ ON
By Karen Davis PhD | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
“The misery of egg-laying birds has been well-documented, but what about the life of chickens bred for eating?” Andrew Purvis, “Pecking Order,” The Guardian, Sept. 23, 2006. Chickens are the largest READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
The following is a letter I wrote and sent today to the Goodman Community Center in Madison, Wisconsin after discovering a small flock of backyard chickens behind the building. The READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
In addition to being severely underweight and anemic, suffering a severe biting mite infestation, drooping her head and keeping her eyes closed, Lucinda exhibits a disfiguring beak deformity that is 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
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
Just when I thought I knew all the common, standard industry practices in dairy farming, I find something even more bizarre and cruel. The sound in this video is said READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
Author Will Anderson provides a vivid and personal portrayal of his experiences inside an auction house for dairy cows in his new book “This is Hope: Green Vegans and the READ ON