Animals in Agriculture

Featuring Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer, this film exposes the harsh realities of modern factory farming with an eye toward reform.

Making use of drones, as well as hidden and handheld cameras, this documentary reports on the current realities of modern animal agriculture, and places these observations within a context of commentary on the morality of humankind’s relationship with animals. Filmed in Australia, with a global perspective.

A collection of essays by the founder of United Poultry Concerns, detailing 30 years of activism on behalf of chickens and other domesticated fowl. In addition to personal stories, the book highlights the intelligence, as well as the complex and socially rich emotional lives of these birds, and informs the reader of the ways they are treated in modern production agriculture.

Tolstoy’s account of witnessing slaughter, and his conclusion that if a person “be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because, to say nothing of the excitation of the passions caused by such food, its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling –killing; and is called forth only by greediness and the desire for tasty food.”

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 and animals.

Documentary about the undercover investigation of the Wiles Hog Farm by the Humane Farming Association, and the resulting trial on charges of cruelty to animals.

This brief monograph, though dated, is still relevant in describing the ways in which the welfare of farmed animals has been removed as a subject of legal regulation in the United States. Also in Law and Policy

An accessible analysis of the economics of animal food production, including a critical view of the substantial "externalized" costs that, it is argued, the animal food system imposes on taxpayers, animals and the environment.