Not until my mid-40s did I finally wake up to the many appalling facts behind dairy farming, most notably, the inherently cruel and forceful separation of a mother cow and READ ON

By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
Not until my mid-40s did I finally wake up to the many appalling facts behind dairy farming, most notably, the inherently cruel and forceful separation of a mother cow and READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights
A few days ago some nice lady wrote me to tell me that there were over 700 comments on an article of mine on care2.com about how we have not READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
Now the menu this chef had developed clearly indicated to me that he lacked the creative skills to make this meat- and cheese-loving Slow Foodie crowd warm up to plant-based READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture
I have heard important figures in all religions and many secular areas of study make the claim that eating meat honors the natural order. But whose natural order? Which natural READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights
How many times have you heard someone justify their behavior based on the illogical premise that history somehow makes it right and assures its ethical legitimacy into the future? In READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products & Psychology
The artificial breeding, exploitation, enslavement, killing and profiteering from the slaughtered corpses of some 60 billion land animals and another approximate 60 billion to 1 trillion marine animals every year READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rights, Veganism
“Real change is about making social justice for everyone, any gender, sexual orientation, race or species. Many people I know demonstrated for social justice last summer, but weren’t vegan. This READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Photo Galleries
Precious Animals is a photo-project about the relationship between animals and humans, focusing on animals as manufactured consumer products on the one hand, with efficiency playing the leading role, and READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Health and Nutrition, Veganism
“Casein, one of the proteins in milk, crosses the blood-brain barrier and becomes something called casomorphins. Yes’m, that sounds a lot like morphine—because casomorphin is also an opiod. Nature designed READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Movie Reviews
Speciesism is a term coined by Richard Ryder in 1970. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines specieism as “prejudice or discrimination based on species; especially discrimination against animals.” Ryder pointed out that READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Health and Nutrition, Veganism
Cheese has a concentration of opiate compounds originating in milk called casomorphins (1) believed to help strengthen the bond between mother cow and calf. The idea that they contributes to READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Farm Animal Intelligence
While researchers test for evidence of intelligence in animals and scientists testify in front of USDA panels about the capacity of animals to think or feel, I’ve been doing some READ ON