As I was preparing to speak on a panel on the subject of so-called “factory farming,” I felt compelled to question what this powerful slogan even means.
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Why Are We Still Talking about Factory Farming?
Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry? The Filthy Business of Fish Farming
October 9th, 2019, animal protection organization Compassion Over Killing released footage from their new undercover investigation of a salmon factory farm. The first of its kind, their investigation revealed awful READ ON
Scientists Call Octopus Farming an Ethical and Environmental Disaster
Efforts to raise octopuses in captivity has already resulted in massive mortalities of them. There is no doubt that the treatment and slaughter of these animals if mass produced for READ ON
Farm to Fridge: 12 Minutes to Change Your Life
“Most farmed animals know no kind touch or compassionate care, only a life filled with intensive confinement, abusive handling, painful mutilations, careless neglect, and merciless slaughter,” says Mercy For Animals’ READ ON
Investigation Reveals Horrific Conditions for Countless Birds at Nation’s Largest Egg Producer
On the heals of the largest egg recall in history in which over a half a billion eggs were recalled from the nation’s 2nd and 3rd largest egg producers, a READ ON
A New Video Exposes the Realities Behind the Commercial Turkey Industry
“If you’re planning to put a turkey on your Thanksgiving table this year, please take seven minutes to watch this important video and understand what it took for that bird READ ON
2-Year Cornucopia Institute Study Finds Organic Eggs Not What They’re Always Cracked Up To Be
What makes organic eggs better and more desirable to many consumers over conventionally-raised eggs? What are consumer expectations of organic eggs and does the organic egg industry really live up READ ON
Our Reliance on Animal Food Products Is Comparable to Our Reliance on Foreign Oil: Both Have Led Us Down a Path of Unsustainability
Living greener or more responsibly means many things to many people. Yet while some people move into hybrid cars and governments stumble over renewable energy policies, the biggest impact we READ ON
Lurking behind the next ‘fact-based” consumer food site you land on just might be corporate PR man Rick Berman
Who is Rick Berman? Unless you are a big corporate executive looking to wage a big PR war against some consumer group, you would never have a reason to know READ ON
New Discoveries in Animal Intelligence are Revealed in Jonathan Balcombe’s Book Second Nature
“There is an enormous disconnect between what we now know of animals’ experiences of their lives, and how we treat them as a whole (most notably as in factory farms READ ON
