National Geographic Wild recently debuted a new TV docuseries called “The Hatcher Family Dairy” about life on a Tennessee dairy farm that has been exploiting cows for 175 years. Read READ ON

By Calen Otto | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Animal Products and Ethics
National Geographic Wild recently debuted a new TV docuseries called “The Hatcher Family Dairy” about life on a Tennessee dairy farm that has been exploiting cows for 175 years. Read READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
The realities of dairy farming broke Jess Strathdee’s heart. After becoming a mother, she soon found she could no longer support an industry based on exploiting motherhood. “I was taking READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
Jackie Scurr began dairy farming when she was just 19 years old. After years of experience and witnessing the heartbreak of the dairy industry, Jackie has now commited her life READ ON
By Calen Otto | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation
My hearts hurts for the forgotten, abandoned, and lonely animals that I witnessed on this “family dairy farm,” whose suffering is pushed out of sight, hidden behind the complacent shrug READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“I was born into cattle farming and everybody thought it was the natural thing to do for the son to take over the father’s role, maintaining the farm and continuing READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
Former slaughter-free dairy farmer and cheesemaker Andrea Davis had a change of heart after recognizing that her work, like all dairy farming, depended on bringing more and more babies into the READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
In retrospect, having been fooled by the allure of humanely slaughtered meat, I see the great irony of this labeling ploy. Marketers have to work harder to desensitize people who READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“As a child, I have witnessed the cruel separation of mother and calf over and over again, and was told that it was normal and necessary. This couldn’t be further READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Before, I denied that I liked them. There was no other way. I wanted to earn a living. And now they are more like comrades. You are happy, you talk, READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Cow’s milk IS baby calf growth fluid. No matter what you do to it, that is what the stuff is. Everything in that white liquid – the hormones, the lipids, READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Lyman recalls the difficult moment he discovered that he could no longer turn away from the question of killing animals we have no need to harm at all: “Not, ‘Am READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“there is now a very clear distinction between humane and inhumane farming. Humane farming is cultivating a plant-based diet. Inhumane farming is breeding any sentient being for production and consumption.” READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“We have always treated our animals with love and gentleness. Anybody who visits the farm can see that. But being a dairy farm at all is still adding to the READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“I have often heard the word “humane” used in relation to meat, dairy, eggs, and other products… I have always found this curious, because my understanding is that humane means READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
I looked beside me on the highway and there was a tractor trailer hauling pigs to Quebec. That was the day I made the connection. I looked these poor animals READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
To make a long story short, I used to be a very bad person. A terrible person. And I think that I still am, even to this day. Anything that READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Farmer Turned Vegan
“Dr. Campbell spent his entire childhood, into adulthood, living and working on his family’s dairy farm, and undertook the China Study with the belief that animal protein was an essential READ ON