I first learned about Karen Davis and United Poultry Concerns in 2009 when exploring ways to better understand and care for my first family of adopted chickens. I was immediately READ ON
For the Birds: a Book that Challenges Society’s Attitudes about Chickens and Empowers the Animal Rights Movement
What is the future for farm and slaughterhouses workers when animal farming ends?
One of the most frequently expressed concerns about ending animal farming is what will happen to the workers and/or businesses if and when this change happens? The same concerns are READ ON
‘Everything eats and is eaten’: false statement and poor excuse for choosing to harm animals
When we say, ‘Everything eats and is eaten,’ we are also implying a conclusion which is something like, “Therefore eating animals is justified because it’s natural.” But there are many READ ON
Why unethical plant crops like coffee, bananas, palm oil and chocolate aren’t a valid criticism of veganism
Some plant crops are particularly destructive to rainforests, indigenous communities and other native species as well as exploit slave and child labor. In discussions of veganism and animal rights, some READ ON
New Research Shines Light on the Complex Social World and Individuality of Sheep
A recent report on sheep behavior dispels many of the common cultural myths that have clouded our understanding of this species for centuries.
Is Clean Meat Easy Prey for Meat Industry Elites?
There is still so much to learn about this complex subject of clean meats, which the more optimistic proponents claim could save billions of animals, but there is much room READ ON
11 Abandoned King Pigeons (Squab) Rescued!
Free from Harm is working with Chicago Bird Collision Monitors on a rescue of 11 King pigeons — the white domestic variety that are raised for meat (squab) and ceremonial READ ON
Corporate Media’s Coverage of Bruce Friedrich Shows Ignorance of Grassroots Activism
It should be of no surprise that the media finds figures like Bruce Friedrich a more “palatable” subject for indulgent feature stories like the one recently published in the New READ ON
We Can’t Allow the Green New Deal to Ignore Animal Agriculture’s Impact on Climate Change
For some reason, as soon as the subject of animal agriculture’s impact on climate change comes up, the substance vanishes and the denial kicks into full gear. Watching this play READ ON
The Science of Delivering Drugs through Chicken Eggs?
Scientific researchers are heralded in our culture as the saviors of humankind, reinforcing an ancient myth in which the “lesser animals” are elevated as martyrs for their “sacrifice” in serving READ ON
Megan McCain Challenges Cory Booker’s Veganism on The View
At one point during an interview on The View, host Meghan McCain raised the subject of Booker’s veganism. What was left unsaid spoke volumes.
Twitter CEO Recalls Ritual Slaughter Most Memorable Encounter of Zuckerberg
The grotesque notion that needlessly killing someone yourself — rather paying someone else to do it for you — makes you morally superior surfaced in mainstream media once again when READ ON
Ocasio-Cortez: Being Moral Over Correct
In her recent 60 Minutes interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a point that could be very instructive for vegans: “If people want to really blow up one figure here or READ ON
4 Anti-Vegan Story Formulas from Mainstream Media
As the popularity of independent media outlets surge, the audience for mainstream media is shrinking, and the latter’s acts of desperation are getting even harder to stomach, especially when it 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
Tell Ben & Jerry’s: exploiting animals is not progressive, at all!
Ben & Jerry’s has been owned by the huge multinational corporation Unilever since 2000 and yet continues to position its brand as part of the progressive movement. Its new Facebook ad (pictured above) is READ ON
Wisconsin’s Faustian Bargain: Canned Hunting, Breeding Factories and Killing Fields to Save Wildlife
The hunting defense frames hunting, not as sport or leisure, but as essential conservation work, based on an appeal to fear, warning that wildlife populations will spiral out of control READ ON
Why Rare or Heritage Breed Farming is Not Conservation
The following is my letter to the editor of The Globe and Mail in response to their publication of the post, This sheep could save our bacon someday: Why farmers are READ ON
Manufacturing Consent: the Fictional Foundation of Animal Exploitation
All too often, farmed animals are portrayed as willing participants in whatever it is we want to do with them. By portraying the relationship between farmer and the animals he READ ON
The Post Truth Farm in the Age of Trump
“Community members are invited to grab a barbecue pork sandwich lunch for 50 cents and pet some farm animals next week at Danville Area Community College,“ reads the opening of READ ON
