Loved this, from a discussion on Making Hay of Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows:
What we eat – what we choose to consider food – is the product of ideology when we aren’t forced by necessity to eat whatever we can get.
And this:

Our goal isn’t to [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how, when one cow (or goat, or pig, or chicken, or turkey) escapes from the slaughterhouse, the public at large want to save him/her, but then don’t recognize how their own eating habits put said animal in that position in the first place.
This week, Molly (so named by [...]

New blog from the folks at Farm Sanctuary, focused on activism:
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Yesterday was Thanksliving 2007 at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.
It was a fantastic event, which started with meeting three baby lambs recently arrived:
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We also toured around the farm and took some photos and met some animals before dinner began see the photoset at flickr.
The menu was, as expected, absolutely fantastic, featuring food from Isa [...]