If we really want to change the situation, we have to do more than endlessly call upon USDA, FDA, agribusiness and related entities to “do” something. We as consumers need READ ON

By Karen Davis PhD | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Animal Products and Ethics
If we really want to change the situation, we have to do more than endlessly call upon USDA, FDA, agribusiness and related entities to “do” something. We as consumers need READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Animal Rights
PARIS: On Saturday, June 2nd organizers from multiple animal organizations staged a large scale demonstration at the symbolic location of the old slaughterhouses of Vaugirard in the 15th Arrondissment, where READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Educational / Inspiring Talks
In this hour-long video, photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur takes us on a journey of her work which involves travel to amazing places and truly unique experiences with individual animals that she READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Animal Products and Ethics
If it’s so natural and normal and necessary, why does the New York Times try to defend meat eating and the meat industry with many elaborate, convoluted and often bizarre READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products & Psychology, Animal Products and Culture, Animal Products and Ethics, Movie Trailers
Why do we look away from millions of animals in industrial farms while pampering and humanizing others? Such is the fundamental question posed by a fascinating new documentary film by READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Health and Nutrition, Veganism
The thing about humans is that we are highly evolved omnivores. We have adapted to survive according to whatever foods are available. When fruits, nuts, and plants are plentiful, we READ ON
By Zoe Weil | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Veganism
On the way to the airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador, I met an observant Jewish man who looked out of place with his yarmulke and long coat in this Latin American, READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Veganism
Some interesting vegan and vegetarian “defector” stories are making their way across cyberspace lately with some recounting horror stories of near death experiences, all blamed on their vegan diet. One READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Health and Nutrition, Veganism
Cheese has a concentration of opiate compounds originating in milk called casomorphins (1) believed to help strengthen the bond between mother cow and calf. The idea that they contributes to READ ON
By Zoe Weil | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Farm Animal Intelligence, Food and Wildlife
Would it matter if we perceived other species as fundamentally like us instead of fundamentally different, recognizing clear distinctions between our capacities to modify our environment, communicate and learn through READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Veganism
I met Pamela Ziemann recently when I found an ad on Facebook for the Vegan Milk Revolution Contest and decided to enter it. From our first phone conversation through our READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Health and Nutrition
“My interest in plant-based nutrition began while I was in school studying nutrition. I became fascinated with the clinicians who utilized a plant-based diet to treat and prevent chronic disease. READ ON
By Humane Research Council | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Farm Animal Welfare
We live in a culture where it is completely normal to do things to billions of animals that we would consider unthinkable to do to humans or the cats and READ ON
By Humane Research Council | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Farm Animal Welfare
University of Colorado researchers Colter Ellis and Leslie Irvine have published a paper examining how children in 4-H programs interact with and view the animals they raise and then sell READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Book Reviews, Farm Animal Intelligence
Author, ethologist and biologist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe is breaking new ground in our understanding of and appreciation for animals. For many, Second Nature, his last book, was their first introduction READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Farm Animal Welfare
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a story published by civileats.com about Farmstead Meatsmith and the owner / butcher Brandon Sheard. It’s a prime example of a trend I READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
I could not help but acknowledge the great disconnect between helping one trapped bird—the sparrow— and yet at the same time eating another trapped bird—the chicken—that had lived its short READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, In the Media
Who is Rick Berman? Unless you are a big corporate executive looking to wage a big PR war against some consumer group, you would never have a reason to know READ ON