A new article shared by the Dairy Herd offers tips from a veterinarian on how to make “dehorning” cows less painful. Dr. Hans Coetzee claims that “Using pain management tools READ ON

By Calen Otto | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
A new article shared by the Dairy Herd offers tips from a veterinarian on how to make “dehorning” cows less painful. Dr. Hans Coetzee claims that “Using pain management tools READ ON
By Calen Otto | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
As a young child, who loved being outside and connecting with animals, I looked forward to going to my grandparent’s racehorse farm in Pennsylvania each year. Only now, with years READ ON
By Karen Davis PhD | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
Between December 2014 and June 2015, more than 33 million chickens, turkeys and ducks were suffocated to death with firefighting foam and carbon dioxide in the Midwestern states of Iowa, READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare, Resources
Backyard chicken keepers often describe their relationship with their chickens as “symbiotic.” They provide them with a great life and in return their chickens provide them with eggs. There are READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
When we learned that humane education visionary Zoe Weil had recorded a new TED talk on farm animals, we couldn’t wait to learn more about it. Watch her TED talk READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
I’ve seen a lot of media coverage lately about salmonella and backyard chickens. The Center for Disease Control has issued specific guidelines for backyard chicken keepers for avoiding salmonella, claiming READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
Some people doubt that farmers castrate baby animals without painkillers. Indeed they do, whether they label the “end product” organic, free-range, grass-fed, or pasture-raised. Using castrators is perfectly legal and READ ON
By James McWilliams | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
Ninety-five percent of meat eaters today express an avid interest in animal welfare. Given the extent of this concern, certification has become big business. Unlike “organic,” however, there’s no legal READ ON
By James McWilliams | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
Consumers opposed to factory farming want to know more about the animals we eat. How were they raised? Did they live on a pasture? What did they eat? Where were READ ON
By Karen Davis PhD | | Categories Animal Products and Ethics, Farm Animal Welfare
ASPCA, one of the leading animal protection organizations, would have you believe that the killing of chickens, as shown in the photo here, can somehow constitute a humane practice, a READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
Almost all of the animal welfare organizations are praising the move from battery cages to colony cages for egg laying hens both here and in Europe. It’s a victory for READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
A court in Salo, Finland has acquitted a group of animal activists affiliated with Justice for Animals who recorded the video footage depicting cruel conditions at pig farms of all READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Farm Animal Intelligence, Farm Animal Welfare
Most people only know turkey from the supermarket shelf tightly wrapped in flashy packaging or sliced into deli meats. Food advertising has completely and deliberately dissociated us from the source READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
Can we honestly say that eggs are “humane” simply by evaluating the conditions under which the hens are raised? I don’t care whether they are labeled “pasture raised,” “organic,” or READ ON
By Humane Research Council | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Farm Animal Welfare
We live in a culture where it is completely normal to do things to billions of animals that we would consider unthinkable to do to humans or the cats and READ ON
By Humane Research Council | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Farm Animal Welfare
University of Colorado researchers Colter Ellis and Leslie Irvine have published a paper examining how children in 4-H programs interact with and view the animals they raise and then sell READ ON
By Karen Davis PhD | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
Ever wonder how do the 25 million chickens, turkeys and ducks killed for food EVERY DAY in the United States get to our supermarket and favorite restaurant? This comprehensive report READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Farm Animal Welfare
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a story published by civileats.com about Farmstead Meatsmith and the owner / butcher Brandon Sheard. It’s a prime example of a trend I READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Farm Animal Welfare
There is no doubt that the recent deal brokered by HSUS and The United Egg Producers (UEP) is historic and unprecedented. It is a sign of the times, a sign READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Farm Animal Intelligence, Farm Animal Welfare
When I see the transit cars on the freight trains that haul live chickens packed in hundreds of small crates, stacked several stories high and side by side, I think READ ON