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
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Why You Need to See and Share Seaspiracy
Turkeys Snuggling Like Cats and Dogs Will Touch Your Heart
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
Is An Excuse-itarian Diet Keeping You From Living Your Own Values?
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
Fictions, Facts and Food Choices: A Presentation by Robert Grillo
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
Jay Quigley’s TED Talk on Overcoming Speciesism
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
Turkey Talk Between Birds and Humans Will Blow Your Mind
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
May All Creatures Be Happy and Safe
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
Why Did This Video of a Pig Eating Salad Get 600,000 Views?
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
Just Because You’ve Had Enough Doesn’t Mean You Wanted Too Much
What would the world be like if everyone looked inside a slaughterhouse truck for 2 minutes? See and share these remarkable acts of bearing witness.
Melanie Joy Presentation: Speaking Truth to Power
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
After Learning These Parts of A Chicken, You May Never Want to Eat One Again
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
Vegan Activist Put to Shame By World’s Happiest Cow
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
Farmed Fish: 9 Things Everyone Should Know
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
NBA Star John Salley on Turkey Free Thanksgiving And Why He’s a Vegan
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
“Live Sushi” and Dead Cows, Pigs & Chickens: Make the Connection
There is no moral difference between the practice of live sushi and what we do to farmed animals in slaughterhouses.
“I Like Them To Stay Standing Up”: Why Luiz Antonio Won’t Eat Animals
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
Damien Mander’s Journey from Sniper to Animal Rights Activist
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
My Visit to a Local Live Poultry Market
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
The Spiked Nose Ring: A Symbol for All Dairy Cruelty
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
The Most Powerful Movie Trailer I’ve Seen in a Long Time
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
