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
Animal Cruelty Investigation
Fair Oaks Farms: Selling Sexual Violation of Animals as “The Miracle of Life”
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
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
An Unforgettable Stop on the Way to the Farm Sanctuary
When a Facebook friend of mine Corvus Strigiform sent me this photo he took of caged ducks in a transport truck, I immediately thought of Suzanna, the Pekin duck I READ ON
Putting a Happy Face on a Sow Breeding Factory and My Response
As I was browsing the meat industry news site MeatingPlace.com, I came across an article called “My Week on a “Fact”ory Farm: Part I” by Emily Meredith who is the READ ON
No Antibiotic Use Means More Pain and Suffering for Organic Dairy Cows
Mastitis is a contagious infection of a milk-bearing animal’s udders. Dairy farmers consider it a huge problem, not because it is extremely painful to the cow, but because it can READ ON
Breaking the Mother-Calf Bond: The Untold Story of Milk
Not until my mid-40s did I finally wake up to the many appalling facts behind dairy farming, most notably, the inherently cruel and forceful separation of a mother cow and READ ON
French Foie Gras Investigation: An Haute Cuisine Hell
France is the largest producer and exporter of foie gras. Over 20,000 tons are produced and approximately 700,000 geese and 37 million ducks are slaughtered by the French foie gras READ ON
No Sacred Cows: The Dark Side of the Dairy Industry in India
Since no one actually kills the calves born to dairy cows in India, by an act of commission, the deaths are described as acts of one or another of the READ ON
Marketing Versus Reality: The Myth of the Organic Happy Cow
Everybody says they want to know where their food comes from these days. But we won’t get it from product marketing. What we see here on this Whole Foods 365 READ ON
Animal Equality Documents the Brutal Slaughter of Tuna in Italy
Hundreds of bluefin tunas are caught in traps while they migrate to their breeding grounds and are later slaughtered. During a careful and painstaking investigation, Animal Equality recorded and photographed READ ON
Hatcheries Ship Male Chicks as Packing Material
Mark Bekoff of Psychology Today covers a story reported on by Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns exposing hatcheries that use baby male chicks as packaging filler in shipments of READ ON
Sow and Piglet Cruelty Investigation Surfaces at a Hormel Breeding Operation
While employed at Hawkeye Sow Centers (HSC), a pig breeding factory farm in Leland, Iowa, a COK investigator wore an undercover camera to document the day-to-day miseries forced upon thousands READ ON
Investigation Reveals Horrific Conditions for Countless Birds at Nation’s Largest Egg Producer
On the heals of the largest egg recall in history in which over a half a billion eggs were recalled from the nation’s 2nd and 3rd largest egg producers, a READ ON
