On August 5, 2013, Fair Oaks Farms—the largest “agritourism” destination in the country— will celebrate Opening Day of Pig Adventure, a commercial breeding facility where 2700 sows are impregnated to READ ON
Fair Oaks Farms: Selling Sexual Violation of Animals as “The Miracle of Life”
Meet Your Bacon: Footage of Pigs In Transport Truck Goes Viral
During Toronto’s torturous heat wave this July, with temperatures soaring to some 40 degrees Celsius (that’s 110 degrees Farenheit), activists from Toronto Pig Save have mobilized to give water and READ ON
Catching Up With Science: Burying the “Humans Need Meat” Argument
In the newly revised Australian Dietary Guidelines, Australia’s top health experts now agree with leading health advisory boards in the U.S. and Canada that well-planned vegan diets are a safe, READ ON
The Sheep Who Jumps for Joy: On the Will to Live in All Animals
Like the will to live, the ability to experience pleasure is also not unique to humans. Animals exploited for food also seek pleasure, from chickens who purr, to sheep who READ ON
Debeaking Video Shows Standard Practice on Free Range Egg Farms
In addition to being severely underweight and anemic, suffering a severe biting mite infestation, drooping her head and keeping her eyes closed, Lucinda exhibits a disfiguring beak deformity that is READ ON
“Live Sushi” and Dead Cows, Pigs & Chickens: Make the Connection
There is no moral difference between the practice of live sushi and what we do to farmed animals in slaughterhouses.
“I Like Them To Stay Standing Up”: Why Luiz Antonio Won’t Eat Animals
When I saw this video, I cried. Apparently I’m not the only one; every other comment I’ve seen from viewers expresses the same reaction. In the video, a toddler in READ ON
The Spiked Nose Ring: A Symbol for All Dairy Cruelty
Voltaire once wrote, “If we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities,” and nowhere is this principle seen more clearly than in the billion dollar lies and bizarre cruelties of the READ ON
The Sexual Violation of Dairy Cows in 14 Steps
Artificial insemination (A.I.) is the most common method of breeding dairy cows in the United States, accounting for nearly 80% of all dairy cow pregnancies. (1) Like all mammals, cows READ ON
The Milk of Human Unkindness: Betraying Children With Every Glass
“The very saddest sound in all my memory was burned into my awareness at age five on my uncle’s dairy farm in Wisconsin. A cow had given birth to a READ ON
A Closer Look at What So-Called Humane Farming Means
Many of the worst cruelties inflicted on animals in factory farms are also routine practices on small, free-range farms. Here are four of them: 1. Sexual violation and exploitation of READ ON
