Farmers continually claim that the rest of us should visit a farm to educate ourselves about animals. But my response to farmers is that they could stand to learn a READ ON
Robert Grillo Articles
Sanctuaries Teach Us What Farms Can’t
The Happy Chicken Farmer Fantasy
By allowing his chickens to live 5 weeks longer than those raised on factory farms and by allowing them a few hours a day to forage on a pasture, the READ ON
Overcoming Our ‘Egg-Industry’ View of Chickens
As someone who rescues, raises and advocates on behalf of chickens, one of the biggest challenges I face is getting people to see the chicken BEFORE the egg. Even many READ ON
Why Animals Can’t Sacrifice Their Lives for Us
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
Sweet Pea: The Life of an Egg Laying Chicken
Some of you may recall that our wonderful hen Sweet Pea needed to have exploratory surgery in March to determine the cause of a large and growing mass in her READ ON
How the Intelligent Hen Study Fails Chickens
There’s a lot of buzz in the animal protection movement about a new chicken intelligence study that, once again, maintains that chickens are even more intelligent than we once thought. READ ON
Backyard Chickens in Peril
The following is a letter I wrote and sent today to the Goodman Community Center in Madison, Wisconsin after discovering a small flock of backyard chickens behind the building. The READ ON
Michael Pollan Talks Trash about Chickens Just Like Big Ag He Denounces
“Their brains have been bred right out of them, they’re really nasty and stupid.” That’s what Michael Pollan had to say in a recent interview in Smithsonian about chickens like READ ON
When Moral Relativism Becomes a Justification to Exploit Animals
I would agree that, in many cases, morality is a personal matter. The choice of faith or secular belief is one’s personal business. In fact, any belief or action that READ ON
