This “zine” (little magazine) was made for an environmentally-conscious, but still carnivorous, audience. There will be no conversion-tactics here, just chickens telling stories.
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Some additional resources:
Product Labels To Look For:
● https://awionline.org/content/consumers-guide-food-labels-and-animal-welfare
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/dining/animal-welfare-labels.html
● https://www.consumerreports.org/food-labels/seals-and-claims/american-humane-certified
● https://www.vox.com/22838160/animal-welfare-labels-meat-dairy-eggs-humane-humanewashing
Brands to Avoid, and Why:
● http://crueltyfreeinvesting.org/ten-worst-companies/
● https://www.mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Flunking-the-Planet-Americas-Leading-Food-Companies-Fail-on-Sustainable-Meat.pdf
Band Checking Tool
● https://www.aspca.org/shopwithyourheart/consumer-resources/shop-your-heart-grocery-list
● https://www.aspca.org/news/how-do-you-avoid-factory-farmed-products-well-walk-you-through-it
Costs of Factory Farming:
● https://sentientmedia.org/factory-farms/
Environmental Costs of Factory Farming:
● https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/4/20993654/chicken-beef-climate-environment-factory-farms
Inhumane Practices:
● https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/24/real-cost-of-roast-chicken-animal-welfare-farms
● https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-poll-reveals-chicken-consumers-would-switch-brands-and-pay-more-for-meat-to-avoid-current-standard-industry-practice-of-live-shackle-slaughter-reports-the-humane-league-301177228.html
● https://thehumaneleague.org/article/chick-culling
Toe Trimming:
● https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119325064
Cost of Factory Farming to Farm Workers:
● https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/human-cost-chicken-farming/601687/
● https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/apr/22/chicken-farmers-big-poultry-rules
● https://www.huffpost.com/entry/plight-of-factory-farm-workers_b_5662261
● https://ffacoalition.org/articles/dangerous-conditions-factory-farms/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20worst%20thing%2C%20worse%20than,to%20death%20with%20a%20pipe.
Antibiotic Resistance:
● https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/11/200870193/are-antibiotics-on-the-farm-risky-business
Do We Need Industrial Farming?:
● https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/28/can-we-ditch-intensive-farming-and-still-feed-the-world
● https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion/
● https://grist.org/sustainable-farming/2011-05-11-factory-farms-only-way-to-feed-the-world-no-says-science-paper/
How Will We Feed the World?:
● https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion/
Why Do Americans Eat So Much Meat?:
● https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/26/155720538/the-making-of-meat-eating-america
● https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/the-price-of-plenty-how-beef-changed-america
BOOKS
● Braiding Sweetgrass, Robil Wall Kimmerer
● The End of the Plenty, Joel. K. Bourne Jr.
FILMS
● Food Inc., 2008
● Cowspiracy, 2014
● The Last Pig, 2017
Proof Sanctuary Hen isn’t making this sh*t up:
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https://www.asyousow.org/our-work/environmental-health/antibiotics-factory-farms
A Consumer’s Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare. (2014). Animal Welfare
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Harvey, F. (2019a, February 13). Can we ditch intensive farming – and still feed the
world? The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/28/can-we-ditch-intensive-farming-and-still-feed-the-world
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/28/can-we-ditch-intensive-farming-and-still-feed-the-world
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