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
Unending Quarantine: We Are Not the Only Ones
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
The Modern Chicken Industry: Humankind at its Worst
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
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
Fairlife? Biggest “Humane” Dairy Label in U.S. Exposed for Horrific Routine Abuse
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
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
Dear Asheville: Your ‘Humane Slaughter’ Instructors Are Not Your Victims
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
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
Chickenjustice.org Has Nothing to Do with Justice for Chickens
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
Justice for the Strong, Injustice for the Powerless
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
Cows on a Pasture of Solid Waste
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
You Would Never Choose the Life of Sheep
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
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
