Slaughter Free Chicago and Community Persuade Aden Poultry Owner Not to Open Slaughterhouse in Marengo, IL and Instead Use the Property for Other Purposes

By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Rights
By David Nibert | Categories Animal Rights
The exploitation of nonhuman animals for the past ten thousand years has been disastrous for human society. At this tragic moment in history, circumstances are crying out for policies and READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Animal Rights
Shelter-in-place mandates, shuttered businesses and community spaces, and the loss of important social and familial rituals has found us confronting an unprecedented moment of alienation. We are profoundly disoriented by READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights
For me, the modern chicken industry is an expression of humankind at its worst. My visit last night to Ciales slaughterhouse in Bucktown to document the delivery of birds showed READ ON
By Calvin Neufeld | | Categories Animal Rights
The return of Canada’s prison farms could be visionary, life-affirming, empathy-inducing, and environment-protecting through green agriculture and animal sanctuary. If, however, we remain blind to the treatment of prisoners, animals READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Rights
Note: This is part 1 of a 2 part feature. Please read part 2 here. The Biggest Undercover Dairy Investigation in History – Fair Oaks Farms and Coca Cola from READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights
Last week Trump signed into law the 2019 Farm Bill which included a provision for banning the slaughter of dogs and cats for meat in the U.S. Let’s put aside the READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Rights
Instructors of a “humane slaughter” class near Asheville, NC, frame animals as being “honored” to have their throats slit, and frames the vegans who protest this class and its messaging READ ON
By Saryta Rodriguez | | Categories Animal Rights
In this article, Saryta describes her experience as a literacy tutor specializing in elementary school students and explores some of the challenges she has faced in her work with children READ ON
By Hope Bohanec | | Categories Animal Rights
In War for the Planet of the Apes, the Colonel is a mirror into the mindset of the modern human. We want to keep our control of the comforts of READ ON
By Lee Hall | | Categories Animal Rights
The leaves are turning in the northern hemisphere, and, once again, deer will be society’s targets. Legal theorist and Free From Harm guest columnist Lee Hall observes that the fate READ ON
By Beth Levine | | Categories Animal Rights
At the heart of our friendship was empathy. Empathy is what allows us to cross boundaries, whether between “self’ and “other” or “us” and “them.” Empathy is about understanding how READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights
Having discovered a website called chickenjustice.org, I was eager to determine the organization behind it. But what I discovered there had little if anything to do with chicken advocacy. Instead READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights
Non human animals are born into and trapped inside of a human-dominated world by no choice or fault of their own. For our own species we say we believe in READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights
What legacy are we leaving behind? Mountains of waste? Cows living among our own waste? This photo speaks volumes about the future of food. It represents the reality behind animal READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights
Don’t look back. Don’t look forward. If you imagine living the life of a sheep born in 2013, your short life was marked by encounters with callous and desensitized humans READ ON
By Beth Levine | | Categories Animal Rights
By John Sanbonmatsu | | Categories Animal Rights, Featured Articles
One of my secret pleasures as a boy was to sit for hours poring over my father’s collection of photography books. There, in The Family of Man, Days to Remember, READ ON
By Jennifer and Nathan Winograd | | Categories Animal Rights
Recently, Foster Farms announced that they were awarded the American Humane Association’s “Humane Certified” label which now appears on the package of every dead Foster Farms chicken sold in America. READ ON
By Jennifer and Nathan Winograd | | Categories Animal Rights
“The right to life should be the bedrock of any movement that claims to be rights-based, as the animal rights movement by its very name, does. Not only because each READ ON