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Are Animal Farms Poisoning Our Organic Food? 

August 12, 2025

Under USDA organic standards, crops must be grown without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, or chemical fertilizers. However, the same standards allow a wide range of “natural” soil amendments derived from animals, which carry chemical and pharmaceutical residues from an entire lifecycle of toxic exposure.

There Will Be Battlefields

December 9, 2023

In a world where lives are simply viewed as expendable, innocent life will be cast aside whenever someone with enough power stands to benefit, whether the lives in question are those of nonhumans, soldiers, civilians, women, children or the elderly.

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Exploitation of Workers

March 20, 2021

In addition to the very real physical burden this industry places on the individuals who work within it, the psychological toll of working with individuals who are violently killed or about to be killed cannot be overestimated.

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Hijacking Human Health

March 19, 2021

It is not only our national nutritional guidelines that have been hijacked by this reprehensible industry, it is our very healthcare system itself, which is crippled under the weight of millions of individuals seeking relief from conditions that are largely avoidable.

Veganism & World Hunger

September 1, 2014

If all food crops were fed directly to humans instead of animals, around 70% more food would be added to the world’s supply, which would be enough to feed an additional four billion people. It is the production of animal-based foods that is one of the leading causes of world hunger.