There is no benefit to neglecting the suffering and exploitation of animals in our efforts to end the suffering and exploitation of humans. The systems that perpetuate oppression are the READ ON
Including Animals in Our Circle of Concern
The Moral Lives of Animals: Exclusive Interview with Author Dale Peterson
In the study of animal behavior and intelligence, Jane Goodall may be the first name that comes to mind, but author and researcher Dale Peterson is no less important in READ ON
Enterprising Chicago Mom Teaches Compassionate Living to Family and Community
Anne Hoffman is an Illinois-certified educator of the visual arts, art therapy and reading who is equally adept at employing her business management and non-profit skills to carry out her READ ON
Silence and Denial in Everyday Life—The Case of Animal Suffering
How is it that decent and compassionate people co-exist in silence about widespread animal suffering? This question is the basis of a new University of Newcastle paper exploring the sociological READ ON
Carl Lewis: Plant-Based Diet is the Best
Vegetarian Diet Significantly Reduces Chronic Disease According to New American Diabetes Association Report
The findings of a new study published In Diabetes Care, a publication of the American Diabetes Association, finds that a meat-free diet is the most effective at reducing diabetes and READ ON
New Scientific Discoveries of Fish Raise Looming Ethical Questions
It’s worth mentioning that the study of animal neurobiology, cognition and behavior is in its infancy. That means much of what we based our understanding of animal intelligence on up READ ON
Iowa’s answer to inhumane treatment of animals? Shoot the messenger.
A new bill proposed in both the Iowa and Florida state legislatures would make it a crime to take a photo of a farm without the owner’s permission. But what READ ON
World’s Largest Pork Producer Counters Criticism with New PR Campaign
Smithfiled puts a positive spin on pork production in a new multimedia campaign that it claims “takes the mystery” out of how they use pigs to make pork products. This READ ON
Sheep Much More Intelligent Than Assumed
Researchers at the University of Cambridge put Welsh mountain sheep through a battery of tests and concluded that the animals — generally not believed to be very smart — are READ ON
Gary Yourofsky Veganism Speech
Exclusive Interview with Poultry Welfare Pioneer Karen Davis PhD
“I believe we owe it to the birds to do what we can to make their lives less miserable through legislation and public pressure, and to hold the industries that READ ON
Rip Esselstyn on TED
Rip Esselstyn is an Austin firefighter who transformed the health and wellness of the entire Austin Fire Department through his Engine2Diet program, which is now outlined in a book of READ ON
Farm to Fridge: 12 Minutes to Change Your Life
“Most farmed animals know no kind touch or compassionate care, only a life filled with intensive confinement, abusive handling, painful mutilations, careless neglect, and merciless slaughter,” says Mercy For Animals’ READ ON
Buried Alive, 3 Million Sick Animals, Mandated by S. Korean Government
When a government of a major Asian power mandates the “culling” of three million farm animal to prevent the spread of a highly contagious disease and the method is live READ ON
Former Poultry Farm Insurance Underwriter Speaks Out
For seven years, between 2000 and 2006, Emanuelle Mercado left his west loop office high rise with a knot in his stomach. But the stress of his day was not READ ON
The Low-Carbon Diet
Simply put, raising beef, pigs, sheep, chicken, and eggs is very, very energy intensive. More than half of all the grains grown in America actually go to feed animals, not READ ON
59 Billion Land and Sea Animals Killed for Food in the US in 2009
According to recently published data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and several other official sources, 59 billion animals died to feed Americans in 2009. The average American meat eater READ ON
Are Humans Really Predators?
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HSUS Investigation at Smithfield Foods
The Humane Society of the United States has released findings from an undercover investigation that documented the inhumane treatment of female breeding pigs and piglets at a Virginia factory farm READ ON
