Cell phone videocams open factory farms to public view Ignoring 30 years of warnings by leading U.S. agribusiness educators and pundits has at last visibly begun to cost the livestock industry consumer confidence, as evidenced by the explosive growth in sales of plant-based protein foods and steeply declining dairy, meat, and poultry consumption among younger […]
Exposé of “Dairy Disneyland” horrors gives agribiz the runs
Fair Oaks Farms’ Dairy Adventure was recently profiled as “One Farm’s Quest to Save Industrial Agriculture” FAIR OAKS, Indiana––Undercover video from Fair Oaks Farm in Fair Oaks, Indiana, has exposed extensive abuse of young calves at a facility widely billed as exemplifying a new, humane approach to factory farming. Animal Recovery Mission, of Miami […]
Food Fictions by Karen Davis, PhD
Farm to Fable: The Fictions of Our Animal-Consuming Culture by Robert Grillo Vegan Publishers (2016). $13.50 paperback; $5.99 eBook (PDF/epub/mobi formats) Reviewed by Karen Davis, Ph.D. Farm to Fable: The Fictions of Our Animal-Consuming Culture examines the foundations that support humanity’s systematic assault on the identities, bodies and feelings of animals in order to consume them. […]