As someone who researches the dairy industry regularly, I have observed over the last few years a distressing surge in pro-dairy messaging from an increasingly visible and vocal sector of READ ON

By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Featured Articles
As someone who researches the dairy industry regularly, I have observed over the last few years a distressing surge in pro-dairy messaging from an increasingly visible and vocal sector of READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Featured Articles, Why Vegan?
Colleen Patrick Goudreau’s rousing talk, “From Excuse-itarian to Vegan,” has reached nearly 100,000 viewers on youtube, and is a great tool for empowering others to live their own values of READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation, Featured Articles
While passing a small dairy farm on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the Point Reyes National Seashore in early October, I made an impromptu visit to a small, family-owned, pasture-based, READ ON
By Micaela Karlsen | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals, Featured Articles
The concepts of personalized medicine and personalized nutrition have really taken off. People are eating according to their blood type, their metabolic type, their Ayurvedic constitution, and their genotype. Micaela READ ON
By Hannah Gregus | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation, Featured Articles
Each day that I wake up with the thought of bearing witness in mind, I feel that same knot in my chest anticipating how much suffering I will see during READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Animal Rescue Stories, Featured Articles
A few years ago, I adopted a hen about whom I knew very little except that a farmer did not want her anymore because she had stopped laying eggs. The READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals, Featured Articles
Many people insist that eating animals is “natural” — and therefore morally neutral — because other animals eat animals. But it’s important to realize that, with a few exceptions, when READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Rescue Stories, Featured Articles, Videos
When it comes to advocating on behalf of farmed animals, activists are often urged to “be a voice for the voiceless.” But farmed animals do have voices, and they can READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Ethics, Featured Articles
Slaughterhouse journalist Upton Sinclair once wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” But while it may be READ ON
By Dave Simon | Categories Agriculture and Environment, Featured Articles
We must treat as highly suspect the claim that organic animal agriculture is sustainable. Organic methods are an environmentally-mixed bag—sometimes slightly better, sometimes a little worse, and often the same READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Farm Animal Investigations, Featured Articles, Videos
The parts of a chicken most people tend to know are the ones that end up on their plates: “cuts of meat” from a depersonalized carcass that involve creepy descriptors READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Featured Articles
Mourning is a way of making connections, of establishing kinship, and of recognizing the vulnerability and finitude of the other. The protocols that refuse to recognize our mourning refuse all READ ON
By Jennifer and Nathan Winograd | | Categories Featured Articles
I used to work in a specialty cheese shop. I was surrounded by cheeses from around the world and I knew the unique history and characteristics of each of them. READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Featured Articles, Photo Galleries
“the presence of canine teeth = meant to eat meat,” is completely inaccurate. In truth, with the exception of rodents, rabbits, and pikas, nearly all mammals have canine teeth. In READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Featured Articles, Health and Nutrition, Photo Galleries
For many people, ditching dairy is only moderately difficult; for others, it isn’t hard at all. But for some it’s a real obstacle; one of the most consistent objections to READ ON
By Karen Davis PhD | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Featured Articles
Allied with the attempt to place nonhuman animals in a cerebral hierarchy – who is smarter, a lizard or a lion, a penguin or a parrot, a chicken or a READ ON
By James McWilliams | | Categories Farm Animal Intelligence, Featured Articles
Pescetarians—those who eschew eating all animals with the notable exceptional of fish—are commonly viewed as having fashioned diets that are more ethically focused than opportunistic omnivores. But could it be READ ON
By Sherry Colb | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals, Featured Articles
The three examples, of naturally occurring rape, infanticide, and xenophobia, should help dispel the notion that acting in ways that come “naturally” automatically fulfills our moral obligations. In human societies, READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Featured Articles
Narratives and descriptions claiming that animals make sacrifices for us date back to our earliest recorded history and would have us believe that animals give their consent to be violently READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Featured Articles, Health and Nutrition
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