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 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
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
In an eye-opening new research paper called The Conceptual Separation of Food and Animals in Childhood, University of Bristol researchers Kate Stewart and Matthew Cole explore how we, as a READ ON
By James McWilliams | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Instead of thinking about how we were meant to eat, as if we were frozen in time or detached from the world around us, wouldn’t it make more sense to READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
I have a heartwarming story to share with you about my mother Elisa who just got over her doubts about baking without eggs! This was no small hurdle for her, READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Today I was approached by a friend who had a pressing question. She said she’s known some vegans that were really unhealthy. So she wanted to know how I managed READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Civil Eats claims to “promote critical thinking” about our food choices, but does this image and portrayal of Chef Bloomfield appeal to our more critical or civil side? I would READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
After hearing an interview with director Mark Devries, we decided to inquire more about a particular theme that seems so central to his new film, Speciesism the Movie, due out READ ON
By Deborah Dunham | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Beyond the plight of these two lives, this controversy has ignited an important and desperately-needed dialogue about what we eat and why. It’s shed light on the “we versus it” READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
We recently interviewed Debby Rubenstein about her 11-year commitment to helping animals at Wagner Farm in Glenview, Illinois, an affluent north side suburb of Chicago. Wagner Farm is part working READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
A small Minnesota dairy farm, Orange Patch Dairy, responds to the question from a concerned vegan: Why do you take the calves from their mothers? Following are key passages from READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Elizabeth shares her powerful story of transformation, from growing up on a small farming family with strong ties to the local 4-H club to becoming a vegan as a young READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
We recently discovered Rebecca Stucki, a California resident who has a pet-sitting and grooming business, on Free from Harm’s Facebook page, where she responded to a photo of a kid READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
I might suggest that you visit or interview sanctuaries like Animal Place, Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary or United Poultry Concerns where some lucky turkeys have been granted a second chance READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
I wrote Kathy Griffin after watching her latest live comedy sketch, Pants Off, where she takes a jab at veganism in one breath and talks about her rescued dog in READ ON
By Sailesh_Rao | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
“All the world’s major religions with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Now the menu this chef had developed clearly indicated to me that he lacked the creative skills to make this meat- and cheese-loving Slow Foodie crowd warm up to plant-based READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
I have heard important figures in all religions and many secular areas of study make the claim that eating meat honors the natural order. But whose natural order? Which natural READ ON