Reading and Media Resources: Animals in Agriculture

An examination of the growing turn against industrial farming practices and toward what has come to be known as the “compassionate carnivore” movement, this book examines in detail the cruelty...

Focused on the arguments for, communication strategies regarding, difficulties of, and joys found in, living with compassion for animals, particularly when it comes to diet. Hosted by Colleen Patrick...

Tackles the questions around whether animal advocates should appeal to human, self-interest, environmentalism or altruism, particularly when attempting to persuade people to stop eating animals and...

A sometimes funny, often harrowing, memoir by an attorney with the Humane Society of the United States regarding the inner workings of American factory farms and litigation against them.

A young man delves into the dark world of factory farming and uncovers a burgeoning movement that views animals as equally significant to humans from both a political and intellectual perspective.

A still valuable exploration of the impact that modernization, deregulation, and consolidation of the meatpacking industry has had on workers, animals, and consumers. 

Examines the impacts that agriculture, particularly but not exclusively industrial animal agriculture, has on humans, animals, and the environment, and considers them specifically in the light of...

In considering the role meat has played, and has incorrectly been imagined to play, in the development of human civilization, also addresses the deeply entwined economic and political lives of humans...

Examines what vegans believe and how veganism corresponds to debates about sustainability, animal studies, the media, identity, intersectional politics, and activism, culminating in the argument that...

An upclose and non-narrated view of the life of Gunda, a breeding Animpig in a traditional, non-factory, pork production farm.