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
Animal Cruelty Investigation
Baby Turkeys Ground Up Alive? It’s Normal Farming Practice
15 Souls: Why the Chickens at Urban Adamah Matter
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
7 Ways Eating Meat, Dairy and Eggs Destroys Motherhood
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
CO2 Stunning of Pigs, Called “More Humane,” Horrifies in New Footage
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
This Piglet’s Miracle Rescue Story Will Make You Cry: Must See Video
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
From Bacon to Holiday Ham: A Day in the Life
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
12 Reasons You May Never Want To Eat Turkey Again
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
Farmer Wants World to See What Humane Turkey Slaughter Looks Like
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
Saddest Slaughterhouse Footage Ever Shows No Blood Or Slaughter
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
Fair Oaks Farms ‘Pig Adventure,’ The First Factory Farm Disneyland, Now a ‘Humane Certified’ Farm
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
Fair Oaks Farms: Selling Sexual Violation of Animals as “The Miracle of Life”
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
The Mobile Chicken Pulper: The Next Chapter in Humane-Washing
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
Meet Your Bacon: Footage of Pigs In Transport Truck Goes Viral
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
My Letter to NWI about Fair Oak Farms Pig Adventure
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
Eliminating the Suffering of Chickens Bred for Meat
“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
Backyard Chickens in Peril
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
Debeaking Video Shows Standard Practice on Free Range Egg Farms
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
The Sexual Violation of Dairy Cows in 14 Steps
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
Industry Claims Torching the Udders of Dairy Cows Is Painless
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
Portrait of a Dairy Cow Auction House
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
