Embarrassed by the publicity, some organizations and individuals featured in the documentary are now furiously backpedaling or disavowing it. The seafood industry, and seafood industry apologists including academics wed to READ ON

By Mary Finelli | | Categories Documentaries
Embarrassed by the publicity, some organizations and individuals featured in the documentary are now furiously backpedaling or disavowing it. The seafood industry, and seafood industry apologists including academics wed to READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Why Vegan?
It seems that the more people spend time with turkeys, the more they are able to recognize them as individuals with unique personalities, emotions, and preferences, just like the cats 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 Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Educational / Inspiring Talks
We are what we eat, but what are the powerful forces shaping our food choices? This is the key question explored in Robert Grillo’s presentation, Fictions, Facts and Food Choices. READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Educational / Inspiring Talks
Jay Quigley’s TED Talk provides a great primer on speciesism, a pervasive form of discrimination against animals that permeates all animal eating cultures, and shows how it fuels the socially 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 Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Cruelty Investigation, Documentaries
The timing of my introduction to Jesse was particularly synchronous. The song Jesse sent me, Waiting for the Birds to Strike, arrived just after co-investigator Olivier Berreville and I returned READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Videos
With his pointy pink head, roving nose disk, and impeccable table manners, this little pig eating a salad has won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of viewers. Followed by READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Farm Animal Investigations, Videos
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Educational / Inspiring Talks
In April of 2013, Free from Harm helped organize what would be remembered as a very special, unforgettable event, featuring social psychologist and author Melanie Joy, who spoke to a 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 Videos, Why Vegan?
This is a cow called Fiete. He was rescued from slaughter and lives on a sanctuary in Germany. Hearing him, I am ashamed because he says better in 30 seconds READ ON
By Dave Simon | | Categories Farm Animal Investigations
The aquaculture industry is like a whale on steroids, growing faster than any other animal agriculture segment and now accounting for half the fish eaten in the U.S. As commercial READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Educational / Inspiring Talks, Videos
4 Time NBA Champion John Salley originally went vegetarian for health reasons. Now a committed vegan and animal rights activist, here he dishes on vegan Thanksgiving, why eating animals “isn’t READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Farm Animal Investigations
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Animal Products and Ethics, Educational / Inspiring Talks
When I saw this video, I cried. Apparently I’m not the only one; every other comment I’ve seen from viewers expresses the same reaction. In the video, a toddler in READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Educational / Inspiring Talks
Meat-eating is strongly associated with cultural perceptions of masculinity and power. The idea that meat-eating and killing are “manly” is constantly reinforced through advertising and other forms of cultural narrative READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Farm Animal Investigations
This short, non graphic video documents my visit to a live poultry market in Chicago. I posed as someone interested in having a business like theirs and asked if I READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Farm Animal Investigations, Featured Articles
Voltaire once wrote, “If we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities,” and nowhere is this principle seen more clearly than in the billion dollar lies and bizarre cruelties of the READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Featured Articles, Movie Trailers
I’ve been following the work of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur for some time now, and we’ve featured her work in our photo galleries as well. Jo-Anne’s work is so subtle and READ ON