By Twyla Francois When I first heard the work of Canadian musician Jesse Thom, I was brought to tears. His music is haunting, ethereal and emotive, yet clear, honest and innocent. I knew immediately that we had to work together on a project. Waiting for the Birds to Strike is the result. The timing of my introduction to Jesse was particularly synchronous. The song Jesse sent me, Waiting for READ ON
There is a buzz building around Sue Coe's new collection of work entitled Cruel: Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation. The official release of the book is April 15th. Pre-orders are being taken on the OR Books website. Richly illustrated with full-color paintings and drawings throughout, Cruel conveys the terrible beauty, and intense suffering, of both the animals used and abused for human READ ON
Narrated by Academy Award-nominee James Cromwell, this 12-minute, powerful film takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration behind the closed doors of the nation’s largest industrial poultry, pig, dairy and fish farms, hatcheries, and slaughter plants – revealing the often-unseen journey that animals make from Farm to Fridge. READ ON
No one wants to know what goes on in the factory farms across this great land of ours. We'd all like to believe that the approximately 10 billion farm animals we consume annually in this country (according to the USDA) die painlessly and with minimal fear and suffering. But the reality of today's factory farms as depicted in the 13-minute documentary short, Glass Walls, is something the meat READ ON
