Bhodi was found on the side of the road on the Northwest side of Chicago on the evening of December 19th, 2016. Learn about his story and the implications it READ ON

By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Rescue Stories
Bhodi was found on the side of the road on the Northwest side of Chicago on the evening of December 19th, 2016. Learn about his story and the implications it READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Rescue Stories
Beyond being a food source, what do we really know about the chicken, a bird species that has been evolving since the time of the dinosaurs? The Chicken Chronicles is READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Featured Articles, Why Vegan?
Colleen Patrick Goudreau’s rousing talk, “From Excuse-itarian to Vegan,” has reached nearly 100,000 viewers on youtube, and is a great tool for empowering others to live their own values of READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Volunteer Spotlight
Mihir Shah is a custom jewelry designer and gemstone wholesaler from Chicago. He was born into a vegetarian (Indian Jain) family. Although non-violence is one of the main precepts of READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Rescue Stories
Rosa is a tiny little red hen only a few months old who a kind young lady named Jessica found lying motionless off of the side of a busy city READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Rescue Stories
Early this month, an animal control officer spotted a duckling couple who had been abandoned in a retaining pond in a suburb of Chicago. She named them John and Grace. READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Educational / Inspiring Talks
We are what we eat, but what are the powerful forces shaping our food choices? This is the key question explored in Robert Grillo’s presentation, Fictions, Facts and Food Choices. READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Rescue Stories
In a natural environment, chicks would spend much of their first weeks of life peeping out from under their mother’s wings, or exploring by her side, feeling nurtured and protected. READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
The movement to treat farm animals better is based on the idea that it is wrong to subject them to unnecessary harm; yet using and killing animals for their flesh READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
In the last several years, a number of arguments have gained traction by claiming that if vegans factor in the amount of animals killed in the harvesting of plant crops, READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
Claiming to be at the top of the food chain is a popular justification for eating animal products and an affirmation of our ability to violently dominate everyone. Yet justifications READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
They named her Mei Hua (Beautiful Flower), the sweet little hen DxE rescued from near death inside of a living hell, a Whole Foods egg supplier. Check out this moving READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
Hunters sometimes argue that if they were to stop hunting, the deer population would explode. This is a false argument, because if hunting were to stop, we would also stop READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals, Featured Articles
Many people insist that eating animals is “natural” — and therefore morally neutral — because other animals eat animals. But it’s important to realize that, with a few exceptions, when READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Veganism
This interview with Free from Harm founder and director Robert Grillo was recently published by the Eugene Veg Education Network and conducted by Lin Silvan, Executive Director of EVEN and READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Ethics
When I went to the kitchen to do dishes, he would stand intently by the sink and watch me do the dishes, he was so curious about my activity. He READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation, Documentaries
The timing of my introduction to Jesse was particularly synchronous. The song Jesse sent me, Waiting for the Birds to Strike, arrived just after co-investigator Olivier Berreville and I returned READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
Domestic turkeys have been bred to be so large, they cannot mate naturally, so hens are forcibly “inseminated” several times. Males are masturbated to get their semen. A “milker” at READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Educational / Inspiring Talks
In April of 2013, Free from Harm helped organize what would be remembered as a very special, unforgettable event, featuring social psychologist and author Melanie Joy, who spoke to a READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animals and the Law
In her new TED Talk, animal rights attorney Lesli Bisgould delivers a terrific overview of the problems with our legal system in protecting animals from the institutions that exploit them READ ON