Taking personal action to end all animal exploitation by not eating, wearing or using animals
Free range vs. battery-caged chickens? The label “free range” or “cage free” sounds good, and in some ways it is a small improvement over battery-caged egg-laying hens raised on factory farms. But cage-free does not mean...
Speaker: Mary Britton Clouse, President, Chicken Run Rescue, www.chickenrunrescue.org Mary Britton Clouse has served as President of Minnesota Animal Rights Coalition, founded the Minnesota Spay/Neuter Project, Legislative Efforts for Animal Protection, and most recently...
Speaker: Robert Grillo, Director, Free From Harm Robert Grillo is the director of Free From Harm, a nonprofit animal rescue, education and advocacy organization. Grillo’s perspective is one from the lens of how popular...
Speaker: Marji Beach, Advocacy and Education Director, Animal Place Beach started the session with wanting to reframe the way people think about exploited farm animals. She asked, “if we can justly and compassionately raise...
The Life of a Factory Farm Cow Raised for Beef Today, over 32,459,000 cattle are slaughtered for beef in the U.S. (2013) Cattle raised for beef start life on the range being grass fed...
The Life of a Factory Farm Pig There are 117,126 million pigs slaughtered in the U.S. every year for the pork industry. And there are over 6 million pigs used each year for breeding,...
Speaker: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Best-Selling Author Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is an award-winning author, public speaker, educator, and has guided people on becoming vegan for over 16 years. Patrick-Goudreau is hard-hitting right from the start with the...
The Life of a Factory Farm Dairy Cow Today’s 9-million factory farm dairy cows suffer immeasurably their entire lives. Cows are ruminant animals, which means they need to graze on grass to sustain their...
There are a number of unverified food labels or claims that have no legal significance, standards or definition, and have been created by the egg or meat industry to manipulate consumers. The U.S. government...
Misleading or Meaningless Food Labels Food labels are downright deceptive and misleading today. Most food labels are created by corporate marketing departments to drive profits and consumer sales at all costs, frequently making meaningless, misleading, and false...
