Faunalytics Index
“A monthly roundup of statistics and figures from around the world, to help you do your animal advocacy more effectively.”
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Harmful Practice: Animal Farming
Faunalytics – Blog
“Our blog provides opinions, insights, and occasional announcements from Faunalytics staff members and some guest authors…Faunalytics is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to helping animals by providing useful information to advocates to help them increase their impact. Faunalytics conducts essential research like impact evaluations, opinion polls, audience surveys, focus groups and other types of studies. Our results can help you understand how people think, so you can choose the best ways to influence them. Our history shows a dedication to our mission: to make you more powerful in creating change for animals.”
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Faunalytics
“Faunalytics is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to helping animals by providing useful information to advocates to help them increase their impact. Faunalytics conducts essential research like impact evaluations, opinion polls, audience surveys, focus groups and other types of studies. Our results can help you understand how people think, so you can choose the best ways to influence them. Our history shows a dedication to our mission: to make you more powerful in creating change for animals.”
Read More Farmed Animal Sanctuaries
A directory of farmed animal sanctuaries in the USA and worldwide.
Read MoreFast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Book: “Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That’s a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.
Schlosser’s myth-shattering survey stretches from California’s subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many fast food’s flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths — from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. He also uncovers the fast food chains’ disturbing efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while they hone their institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities.”
Farm to Fridge
Revealing what happens to animals at farms, hatcheries and slaughter plants.
Read More Farm Sanctuary
“Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming and encourage a new awareness and understanding about farm animals. Today, Farm Sanctuary is the nation’s largest and most effective farm animal rescue and protection organization. We have rescued thousands of animals and cared for them at our sanctuaries in New York and California. At Farm Sanctuary, these animals are our friends, not our food. We educate millions of people about their plight and the effects of factory farming on our health and environment. We advocate for laws and policies to prevent suffering and promote compassion, and we reach out to legislators and businesses to bring about institutional reforms.”
Read More Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM)
“Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) is a charitable organization working for the vision of a world where animals are no longer raised or killed for food. We operate from the nation’s capital through a network of remote activists. We advocate for animals through massive public awareness initiatives in the U.S., Israel, and East Asia. We organize the world’s largest annual animal rights conference that nurtures both aspiring vegans, as well as budding and seasoned activists.”
Read More Farm Forward
“Farm Forward implements innovative strategies to promote conscientious food choices, reduce farmed animal suffering, and advance sustainable agriculture.”
Read More Factory Farming in 60 Seconds Flat
“Go behind the scenes of the meat, dairy, and egg industries, all in just one minute. “
Read More Factory Farming & Food Safety
“Factory farms pollute the environment and our drinking water, ravage rural communities, and harm the welfare of animals—while increasing corporate control over our food. Factory farming is an unsustainable method of raising food animals that concentrates large numbers of animals into confined spaces. Factory farms are not compatible with a safe and wholesome food supply. It’s time to ban factory farms.”
Read More Factory Farming Awareness Coalition
Presentations to educate. “Empowering people to help save animals, the environment, and our own health through our daily food choices. From social justice to public health to sustainability, factory farming is one of the most serious issues facing the planet. By educating young people and stakeholder audiences about the realities of factory farming, FFAC works to build both a consumer base for a sustainable, compassionate food system and an informed citizenry that supports cultural and legislative change.”
Read More Evan’s Climate Change Video
A short video on climate change covering a range of causes and promoting veganism.
Read MoreEveryday Activism (PETA)
“From shopping compassionately to cooking delicious vegan meals for friends, acting to help animals is easy and fun!”
Read More Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN) – Resources
“What does a person need to know about veganism/vegetarianism—the environment—the humane treatment of animals—to make it part of their life? First of all, we need factual information about where our food comes from, who makes and regulates decisions, and what impact our food choices have on our health, the animals and the planet. The 2nd thing we need to know then is how to go veg. EVEN has tried to address both these issues on this site several times over in different categories. It’s important enough that it bears repeating in order to bring clarity to a new frame of reference. Efforts to achieve this change are facilitated by tapping into all the very best websites, books, magazines and videos available. In this Resources section, we can learn everything we need to know to live healthy, cruelty-free, and meaningful veg lives.”
Read More Essays on Reducing Suffering
“This site contains writings on the topic of reducing suffering, including the suffering of non-human animals and far-future beings. Most content is by Brian Tomasik, though a few pieces are written by others.”
Read MoreEthics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement
“This book tells the inspiring story of a lifelong activist whose creativity and careful thought set the standard for the animal rights movement in the twentieth century.”
Read More Ethics & International Affairs
“The aim of Ethics & International Affairs, the quarterly journal of the Carnegie Council, is to help close the gap between theory and practice (and between theorists and practitioners) by publishing original articles, essays, and book reviews that integrate rigorous thinking about principles of justice and morality into discussions of practical dilemmas related to current policy developments, global institutional arrangements, and the conduct of important international actors. Theoretical discussions that originate in philosophy, religion, or the social sciences should connect with such interests and concerns as the function and design of international organizations (for example, the United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund); institutions of accountability (such as the International Criminal Court and ad hoc tribunals); arrangements governing trade and the global economy; as well as issues of human rights, the environment, and the use of force.”
Read More Environmental Working Group
“The Environmental Working Group’s mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. With breakthrough research and education, we drive consumer choice and civic action. We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment. “
Read More Environmental Science Degree Guide
“Find and compare online environmental science degrees and get started in the renewable resources sector to help sustain and preserve our planet for the future. Environmental Science Degree .org strives to be the most comprehensive resource for environmental science degrees on the web, with program reviews for all undergraduate and graduate degree levels, plus a career guide covering all program areas of environmental science.”
Read More Environmental Science
“EnvironmentalScience.org is the ultimate guide to everything you need to know about starting your career as an Environmental Scientist. We offer information on all aspects of becoming and working as an Environmental Scientist.”
Read More Environmental Justice Aotearo
“We work and speak for communities and creatures bearing the cost of poor environmental decision-making. We aim to be New Zealand’s centre of environmental and ecological justice expertise….Mission statement: First, to expose environmental and ecological injustice. Second, to confront privilege and power structures that are or have been unjust. Third, to ensure the life force (mauri) of the environment, and all creatures whose home is that environment, are protected in their own right. Fourth, to restore kaitiakitanga, and strive for meaningful involvement of all people in listening and speaking for their place.”
Read More Environmental Education Fund
“The mission of EEF is to promote eco-literacy and stewardship of the environment by encouraging and helping individuals, communities, schools, religious and other organizations plan and hold engaging programs using film and multimedia events. EEF believes in the power of cinema as a vehicle for information on environmental reality and inspiration for action and hope of change. We have developed relationships with some of the most influential Environmental filmmakers in the country and continue to explore the entire arena of environmental films for the EEF roster. “
Read MoreEnvironmental Footprint Calculator (Vegan)
“Use the calculator below to see the impact you will have on the planet if you decide to go vegan. And if you are vegan, you can use the calculator to see what kind of impact you are already having. Please share this calculator with your friends and show them that the devastation of our planet – the oceans, the air, the rainforests – is very real. This is not solely about how much we care about animals, it is also about how much we care about the planet that supports our existence and provides the air that our children and their children will breathe.”
Read More EnviroLink Forum
Online forum to discuss environmental issues, animal concerns issues and an open forum.
Read More EnviroLink
“EnviroLink is a non-profit organization… a grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in almost every country in the world. EnviroLink is dedicated to providing comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and news.”
Read More Een DIER Een VRIEND (An Animal A Friend)
“Every year many millions of animals suffer needlessly. AN ANIMAL A FRIEND fights as an advocacy organization for the rights of animals and animal-friendly consumers for the welfare and the rights of all those animals whose suffering generally takes place behind heavily guarded fences and, for the public, not accessible places; and for the consumer interests of citizens who want to live in an animal-friendly way out of their philosophical convictions. Foundation A ANIMAL A FRIEND has as main objectives: -Promoting the rights for / of animals to live free from abuse. -Promoting an animal-friendly way of life as a means to prevent animal abuse.”
Read More EcoWatch
“EcoWatch is a leading environmental news site engaging millions of concerned individuals every month. We are leading the charge in using online news in the U.S. to drive fundamental change to ensure the health and longevity of our planet. EcoWatch provides original content from a team of reporters and features insights from prominent environmental and business leaders. News is also curated from more than 50 media partners, and we amplify the message of hundreds of environmental and science organizations from around the world.”
Read More Eden Farmed Animal Sanctuary
“Eden Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Co Meath, Ireland, is a vegan home where farmed animals who have been rescued from the animal use industries, are given sanctuary for life. At Eden they are regarded with the dignity and respect that is their right. We may be different species but we have equal fundamental rights not to be bred, owned, used, exploited, harmed or killed.”
Read More Ecologist issues dire warning about NZ’s freshwater
Interview with Mike Joy (ecologist) “Many parts of New Zealand may be past the ‘agricultural tipping point’ according to author and ecologist Mike Joy, who says our agriculture system needs to undergo drastic changes.”
Read More Economics for the Seventh Generation
“Ji misawaabandaaming, or how we envision our future, is a worldview of positive thinking. It’s an Anishinaabe worldview, coming from a place and a cultural way of life that has been here, on the same land, for 10,000 years. To transform modern society into one based on survival, not conquest, we need to make some changes. We need to actualize an economic and social transformation. Restoring an economics, which makes sense for upcoming generations, needs to be a priority. In our community, we think of this as economics for the seventh generation.”
Read MoreEating Humanely
“Plant-based eating benefits people, animals and the planet. Americans eat more meat per person than almost any other country. Our habit is leading to poor health, environmental degradation and the suffering of billions of animals every year.”
Read More Eat Like You Care
Book: “Prof. Gary L. Francione and Prof. Anna Charlton, who are long-term vegans, explain why our use of animals for food runs counter to the widely shared moral intuition that harming animals unnecessarily is wrong. They address the 30+ most heard questions and objections regarding a vegan diet, and show that none of our excuses for eating animals works. Packed with clear, commonsense thinking on animal ethics, without jargon or abstract theory, this short and clearly written book will change the way you think about what you eat.”
Read MoreEating Animals (book)
Book: “Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name. Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. For years he was content to live with uncertainty about his own dietary choices-but once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important. Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill.”
Read More Eating Animals (movie)
“How much do you know about the food that’s on your plate? Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer, narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, and directed by Christopher Quinn (GOD GREW TIRED OF US), Eating Animals is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming. Tracing the history of food production in the United States, the film charts how farming has gone from local and sustainable to a corporate Frankenstein monster that offers cheap eggs, meat, and dairy at a steep cost: the exploitation of animals; the risky use of antibiotics and hormones; and the pollution of our air, soil, and water. Spotlighting farmers who have pushed backed against industrial agriculture with more humane practices, Eating Animals offers attainable, commonsense solutions to a growing crisis while making the case that ethical farming is not only an animal rights issue but one that affects every aspect of our lives.”
Read More Eat less meat, more plants
“The choices we make about our food matter. The meat and dairy industry’s relentless quest for profit is putting all of us at risk as enormous factory farms force cheap, health-threatening products into our grocery stores and onto our plates. It’s time to choose a better way.”
Read More EarthSave- Lifestyle
Resources on veganism, health, animal farming, recipes and more.
Read More EarthSave – Environment
Resources on climate change, factory farms, food choices, vegetarianism and more.
Read More EarthSave – Resources
Resources on: veganism, vegetarianism, health, animal farming, obesity, diseases, diet, climate change, genetically engineered food and more.
Read More EarthSave- Health
Resources on health, obesity, diseases, diet and more.
Read More EarthSave
“EarthSave International is a California non-profit agency committed to serving individuals and families in need. Through our Meals For Health program, EarthSave drastically improves the health of underserved populations. Hunger and obesity are often flip sides of the same malnutrition coin. Both hunger and obesity can be symptoms of poverty. Obesity, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, bowel diseases, arthritis and a host of other degenerative conditions are rampant in communities experiencing food insecurity. Being poor and having serious health problems create nearly insurmountable obstacles to success. The central health problem plaguing the underprivileged is the same one plaguing much of the modern world: it’s the food.”
Read More Earthlings
Film: “EARTHLINGS is a 2005 American documentary film about humankind’s total dependence on animals for economic purposes. Presented in five chapters (pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research) the film is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, featuring music by Moby, and was written, produced and directed by Shaun Monson.”
Read More Earth Day’s Ecological Footprint Quiz
“Follow the quiz and see the impact you are having on the planet!”
Read More Earth Day Network
“Earth Day Network’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 50,000 partners in nearly 192 countries to build environmental democracy. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. We work through a combination of education, public policy, and consumer campaigns.”
Read More Earth | Food | Life
“Edited by Reynard Loki, Earth | Food | Life explores the critical and often interconnected issues facing the climate/environment, food/agriculture and animal/nature rights, and champions action; specifically, how responsible citizens, voters and consumers can help put society on an ethical path of sustainability that respects the rights of all species who call this planet home. Earth | Food | Life emphasizes the idea that everything is connected, so every decision matters.”
Read More Dyrevernalliansen
“The Animal Alliance works to help the animals that need the most. As an organization, Dyrevernalliansen specializes in professional investigation, contact with the authorities and dialogue with the business sector. Our first priority is always the animal’s best. If we are unable to prevent the suffering, we work to limit it by all legal means.”
Read More Dropping Serious Truth Bombs
“Comedian Lee Camp Drops Vegan Truth Bombs on TV.” Climate change, farming, environmental issues and health.
Read More Drop Dairy
Information on going dairy free. “Hazardous to human health & the environment. Studies have found strong links between dairy consumption and higher rates of bone fractures and osteoporosis, multiple types of cancers, Parkinson’s disease, type 1 diabetes and various autoimmune disorders. Milk sold to consumers often contains small amounts of faeces and pus. Meanwhile, Australia’s dairy industry produces around 12% of our total greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for 10% of our water usage, needing 1020 litres of water to produce 1 litre of milk.”
Read More Dr. Richard Oppenlander
“Dr. Oppenlander is a sustainability consultant, researcher, and author…Dr. Oppenlander is a much sought after international lecturer on the topic of food choice and how it relates to sustainability”
Read More Dominion
“Dominion, (2018) is a vegan Documentary that uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind’s dominion over the animal kingdom. While mainly focusing on animals used for food, it also explores other ways animals are exploited and abused by humans, including clothing, entertainment and research.”
Read More Doing the most good: Help as much animals as possible and maximize your impact – Sharon Núñez
“The talk “Doing the Most Good” from Sharon Núñez will show some of the ways in which you can help as much animals as possible and maximize the impact of your organization, campaign and team. This talk will be a complete overview on why, where and how to focus on what is most effective.”
Read More Documentary: Meat The Truth
“Earlier climate films ignored the most important cause of climate change: livestock farming. Meat the Truth shows that livestock farming generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars, lorries, boats and planes added together.”
Read More Djurens Rätt (Animal Rights)
“The Animal Right has existed since 1882 and is today Sweden’s leading animal rights and animal welfare organization. We work for all the animals suffering from animal experiments, in the food industry’s animal factories, in cages on fur farms and animals that are used in other ways by humans so that they do not get an outlet for their natural behavior. The Animal Right is a pronounced anti-violence movement, because we believe that neither humans nor animals should be subjected to violence. Through democratic advocacy, political influence and attitude change we want to realize our goal: a world where animals are respected as sentient individuals with the right to their own lives. We work primarily in Sweden but cooperate with other organizations and networks internationally and within the EU.”
Read More Direct Animal Action
“Direct Animal Action is a community of passionate activists. We aim to empower people by providing a supportive group structure to facilitate and drive direct action. All animals deserve to live their lives free from exploitation and abuse. Through direct action campaigning we will confront and disrupt the practices that cause animals to suffer. Animals currently lack the legal and social standing necessary to protect them from harm. Direct Animal Action will challenge the current system to create robust laws and values which reflect the moral imperative that we must break the cycle of exploitation and abuse animals are forced to endure.”
Read More Dirt! The Movie (2009)
Film: “DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. The opening scenes of the film dive into the wonderment of the soil. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants and animals, and us, “dirt is very much alive.” Though, in modern industrial pursuits and clamor for both profit and natural resources, our human connection to and respect for soil has been disrupted. “Drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt.” DIRT! the Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow and narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis–brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil. DIRT! the Movie is simply a movie about dirt. The real change lies in our notion of what dirt is. The movie teaches us: “When humans arrived 2 million years ago, everything changed for dirt. And from that moment on, the fate of dirt and humans has been intimately linked.” But more than the film and the lessons that it teaches, DIRT the Movie is a call to action. “The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again.” What we’ve destroyed, we can heal.”
Read MoreDiet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth
Book: “From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the United States, and the astounding moral, economic, and emotional price we pay for it.”
Read More Direct Action Everywhere
“We openly rescue animals in captivity, exposing violence behind closed doors.”
Read More Debeaking Video Shows Standard Practice on Free Range Egg Farms
Video and article on the cruelty of egg farms.
Read More Cynthia King Vegan Ballet Slippers
“When you choose Cynthia King Vegan Ballet Slippers, you have taken a graceful step towards reducing cruelty to animals and improving our environment. You not only help save the lives of the animals used in the production of shoes, but you also help to conserve the habitat of many others. Gorillas, chimpanzees, and many other species face deforestation and homelessness every day due to unnecessary destruction of their habitats for livestock production. Waterways around the world continue to suffer lingering effects of pollution from factory farms and tanneries, some closed generations ago. Using cruelty free ballet slippers directly conserves natural resources and saves lives.”
Read More Cruelty-Free Lifestyle
“Cruelty free lifestyle org is your cruelty-free lifestyle website. We provide you with all the information you need to enable you and your family to make a better outcome for animals by living a healthier lifestyle and helping the planet. We have a ‘No upsetting images’ policy. Cruelty-free is trending. Be part of the trend!”
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