In industrial design, “planned obsolescence” refers to the practice of designing products with artificially limited useful lives so that they will become obsolete, that is, no longer functional after a READ ON
Animal Products and Culture
What to Make of a Diminished Thing
Why Are We Ignoring the Root Cause of this Pandemic?
Language can inflame racism and prolongs solving the root of the problem that we now face: the wildlife trade and animal agriculture. Covid-19 could have originated in any country that READ ON
Why the Meat Industry Does Not Need My Praise for Plant Alternatives
Lately, I’ve seen many social media friends express their excitement and enthusiasm over the introduction of plant-based meat offerings at fast food chains and giant big box supermarkets.
What is the future for farm and slaughterhouses workers when animal farming ends?
One of the most frequently expressed concerns about ending animal farming is what will happen to the workers and/or businesses if and when this change happens? The same concerns are READ ON
Dairy Industry Funds ‘Research’ to Make You Believe You Need Milk Made for Calves
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
No Matter How ‘Humane,’ Eating Animals Means Treating Them Like Trash
No matter how “small, family farm,” “organic, local & pasture raised,” “certified humane” or “welfare approved,” animal agriculture at its core is based on the grossest devaluing of life. When READ ON
10 Mothers On Why They’re Saying NO To Dairy
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
Dying Traditions: The Truth about Thanksgiving Turkey
Throughout history, many traditions that were once considered natural and normal for generations were eventually deemed outdated, cruel, or simply no longer necessary. Some traditions are positive and make society READ ON
Bikini Turkeys and Prostitute Chickens: The Sexualized Death Wish
This short video piece featuring Carol Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, provides a very powerful snapshot of how chickens and turkeys are sexualized by popular culture, linking READ ON
Are Chickens Smarter Than Toddlers? A View of Cross-Species Comparisons
Allied with the attempt to place nonhuman animals in a cerebral hierarchy – who is smarter, a lizard or a lion, a penguin or a parrot, a chicken or a READ ON
The Happy Chicken Farmer Fantasy
By allowing his chickens to live 5 weeks longer than those raised on factory farms and by allowing them a few hours a day to forage on a pasture, the READ ON
Overcoming Our ‘Egg-Industry’ View of Chickens
As someone who rescues, raises and advocates on behalf of chickens, one of the biggest challenges I face is getting people to see the chicken BEFORE the egg. Even many READ ON
Deconstructing the Dairy Is Natural Myth in 14 Steps
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
Meet Your ‘Responsibly-Raised’ Meat
Humane washing takes many forms. On the smallest micro level, it sometimes crops up in your local farmer’s market. That’s where I found a new vendor in between the mushroom READ ON
“I Like Them To Stay Standing Up”: Why Luiz Antonio Won’t Eat Animals
When I saw this video, I cried. Apparently I’m not the only one; every other comment I’ve seen from viewers expresses the same reaction. In the video, a toddler in READ ON
Michael Pollan Talks Trash about Chickens Just Like Big Ag He Denounces
“Their brains have been bred right out of them, they’re really nasty and stupid.” That’s what Michael Pollan had to say in a recent interview in Smithsonian about chickens like READ ON
Dalai Lama to Speak at Kentucky Fried Chicken YUM! Center in Louisville
When we first heard about the Dalai Lama event in Louisville, what struck us most was the venue where his teachings on “Engaging Compassion” would be held: the Kentucky Fried READ ON
The Backyard Chess Game: Dogs, Chickens and Egg Fixations
Spend enough time reading about the quotidian tribulations of poultry proprietors and you quickly learn about the centrality of violence in chicken ownership. In point of fact the chickens, so READ ON
News Alert: Oakland Sausages Adulterated with Compassion
In the latest labeling scandal to rock the foodie world, an Oakland-based restaurant is enduring a Yelp-inspired pile-on for failing to reveal that trace amounts of compassion were discovered in READ ON
Anxieties Rising in Meat Industry as Animal Activism’s Perceived Threat Looms Large
The 2013 annual stakeholder’s meeting for the Animal Agriculture Alliance in May is entitled “Activists at the Door: Protecting Animals, Farms, Food & Consumer Confidence.” The expansive Animal Rights section READ ON
