Slaughter Free Chicago and Community Persuade Aden Poultry Owner Not to Open Slaughterhouse in Marengo, IL and Instead Use the Property for Other Purposes
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Owner Shelves New Slaughterhouse Plans After Negotiations with Activists
Exploiting Animals Is Killing Us and the Planet
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
Milking Justice: Prison Farms Squeezing Profits Out of Prisoners & Animals
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
What the ban on slaughtering cats and dogs says about our legal system
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
The Normalization of Nonhuman Oppression in Education
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
Planet of the Apes: Speciesism Exposed
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
A Vegan Ethic for the Untamed
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
Empathy Does Not Discriminate
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
When This Day Comes: A Poem by Beth Levine
imagine a time When we humans Live in harmony With other living beings A time when
The Boy and the Fox: Understanding Our Violence to Animals
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
Where Animal Welfare Gets It Wrong: Part II
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
Where Animal Welfare Gets It Wrong: Part I
“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
Sentience and the Personhood of Nonhuman Animals
Any attempt to justify our exploitation of non-humans based on their lack of “human” characteristics begs the moral question by assuming that certain characteristics are special and justify differential treatment. READ ON
Defending Animals from Cultural Bias and Journalistic Integrity
As I prepared for an interview today, I couldn’t help but think about one question the journalist asked me in advance of the interview. After talking to people that I READ ON
Vegans, Liberals and Social Justice for Animals
as animal rights ideas inch closer and closer to the mainstream, liberals face the risk of being exposed for espousing a basic way of life–omnivorism–that reifies abuse, hierarchy, intolerance, and READ ON
Am I a Hypocrite for Keeping Adopted Hens and Advocating Animal Rights?
A few days ago some nice lady wrote me to tell me that there were over 700 comments on an article of mine on care2.com about how we have not READ ON
Seven Reasons Why We Have NOT ‘Evolved’ to Eat Meat
How many times have you heard someone justify their behavior based on the illogical premise that history somehow makes it right and assures its ethical legitimacy into the future? In READ ON
Love and Liberation: Insights on Animal Liberation from James McWilliams
When we drift into the vexed territory of benevolent control and ownership over animals, by what set of standards do we determine what makes an animal happy, or what kind READ ON
Sentience, According to Gary Francione
The concept of sentience in non human animals and humans seems to be largely misunderstood today, and yet it is critical to our understanding of the social justice movement for READ ON
The Buzz on Animal Rights Artist Sue Coe: A New Book and Video
There is a buzz building on Sue Coe’s new collection of work entitled Cruelty: Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation. The official release of the book is April 15th. Pre orders READ ON
