In stark contrast to Ganzert’s pious performance in the informercial, this new Foster Farms happy chicken commercial portrays chicken puppet characters that are just ecstatic about the AHA humane certification READ ON

By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
In stark contrast to Ganzert’s pious performance in the informercial, this new Foster Farms happy chicken commercial portrays chicken puppet characters that are just ecstatic about the AHA humane certification READ ON
By Karen Davis PhD | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Featured Articles
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
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
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
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Last week I asked esteemed journalist and agricultural history professor James McWilliams to write an open letter to the Northwest Indiana Times regarding their sensationalized coverage of the new Pig READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
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
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
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
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
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
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Animal Products and Ethics, Educational / Inspiring Talks
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
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
“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
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Charles Ramsey, the internet sensation heralded as a hero for helping to rescue three Cleveland women who were kidnapped, raped and imprisoned for a decade, has earned his reward: an READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
While a utilitarian might make a valid case for why we should do whatever we can to reduce the suffering of animals right now, such a position ignores the deeper, READ ON
By Sailesh_Rao | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
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
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
While visiting a busy garden center today, I almost walked right past this goat who was watching me and everyone else intently. His eyes pleaded with us for attention, but READ ON
By James McWilliams | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
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
By James McWilliams | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
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
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
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
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
There is something incredibly disturbing to me about the story behind this image. Apparently there is a tradition in Italy, as explained to me by my Italian Facebook friend and READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
“The very saddest sound in all my memory was burned into my awareness at age five on my uncle’s dairy farm in Wisconsin. A cow had given birth to a READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Meet Chicago-based Rita Jane Gabbett, Executive Editor of Meatingplace.com, a meat industry news site. In her mission statement about the site, Gabbett seems to acknowledge that an industry that systematically READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
It strikes me as the height of irony that the word propaganda, which has its origins in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia to describe the “PR” campaigns of these violent READ ON