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100,000 Salmon Released in Sweden

Critter News

Fish are individuals who feel both pain and stress, and to breed, keep them in cages and kill them, however it is done, is unacceptable. Both by saving individual animals and also by economic sabotage we make it harder and less profitable to continue to torture and kill animals. For the animals! Direct action saves lives!

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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. They have become, in Ruth Harrison 's most apt description, "animal machines."

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.

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