Resources
Orgs Doing Good
Animal Advocacy & Protection Organizations
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The Humane League’s mission is clear: to end the abuse of animals raised for food.
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Compassion in World Farming advocates on behalf of all areas that are detrimentally impacted by factory farming, including: animals, the environment, public health, and community and workers’ justice.
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For over two decades, Mercy For Animals has been at the forefront of the fight to protect farmed animals. What started as one teenager’s courageous stand against cruelty has become a global movement dedicated to transforming the food industry.
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Animal Outlook is strategically challenging animal agribusiness through undercover investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and disseminating information about the many harms of animal agriculture, empowering everyone to choose vegan.
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Animal Equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
Sanctuaries & Direct Care
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Farm Sanctuary is a place, a mission, a way of life, a state of being.
It is a space of refuge and tranquility, where life is sacred and trauma is healed, where humans and other animals are free from harm and live in peace with dignity.
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PEAK Sanctuary is home to dozens of rescued ‘farm’ animals. Our promise to all of our residents is that they will each have the opportunity to live their best lives full of love, respect, and care.
Education, Media & Public Awareness
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New Roots Institute is a nonprofit organization empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
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Sentient Media is the only nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization solely focused on factory farms and their effects on climate, animals, workers, clean water, public health and rural communities.
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We Animals Media advocates for animals through photojournalism. Their global investigations and stories expose our complex relationships with animals, create ethical and cultural shifts in society, and empower human capacity for compassion and change.
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FREE Plant-Based News & Entertainment Network
UNCHAINEDTV is a global, nonprofit streaming network powered by compassion. We spotlight the stories mainstream media won’t through documentaries, cooking shows, news, and original series.
Behavior & Food System Change
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Greener by Default consults with institutions to apply behavioral science to food policy, nudging diners towards sustainable plant-based food while preserving freedom of choice.
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Reducetarian Foundation is committed to eating less meat and dairy and fewer eggs — following their own hearts and individual motivations.
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The Save Movement’s mission is to bear witness at animal vigils outside slaughterhouses to end animal exploitation and suffering.
Films and Trailers
Health & Personal Journeys
The Game Changers
A 2018 documentary following elite athletes who have adopted plant-based diets. The film interviews science experts and showcases success stories to champion the benefits of plant-based eating for both professional athletes and everyday people.
Veducated
This film follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to go vegan for six weeks. It explores their personal challenges, the ethical and environmental benefits of the diet, and the reality of intensive animal farming in the U.S.
Meat Me Halfway
The path to plant-based living can be isolating. Brian Kateman, leader of the Reducetarian movement, explores a practical middle ground for those looking to make a change without upending their lives, seeking a sustainable path forward.
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Study
Identical twins change their lifestyles for eight weeks in a unique scientific experiment. This four-part Netflix series explores how specific foods impact the body, human health, animal welfare, and the global environment.
Industry & Environment
The Right to Harm
This compelling film captures the delicate dance between humanity and the environment. Through breathtaking visuals and thought-provoking narratives, it highlights the urgency of conservation and the commitment needed to safeguard our planet.
The Smell of Money
What is the price some pay for the world's pork? North Carolina residents take on one of the world's most powerful companies in a fight for their rights to clean air, pure water, and a life free from the environmental impact of industrial pig farming.
Eating Animals
Narrated by Natalie Portman, this film looks at the costs of industrial farming complexes. Through the stories of traditional farmers, it explores how stepping away from factory farming is the only way to protect our health and environment.
Dairy is Scary
A concise, powerful 5-minute video that covers the hidden reality of the dairy industry. This short documentary provides a fast-paced look at the mechanical and economic side of dairy production that often goes unseen.
Ethics and Advocacy
Earthlings
Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, this film explores humankind's economic dependence on animals for pets, food, clothing, and research. Using hidden cameras, it chronicles the day-to-day practices of industries that rely entirely on animals for profit.
Invisible Vegan
Directed by Jasmine Leyva, this documentary explores the intersection of dietary patterns and race within the African-American community. By tracing food history from Africa through slavery to the present, Leyva highlights how reclaiming plant-based roots can help overcome modern health challenges.
The Ghosts in Our Machine
Through the lens of photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, this film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within the "machine" of our modern world, covering stories in the food, fashion, entertainment, and research industries.
The Last Pig
An immersive snapshot of a farmer in crisis. After years of raising pigs in Upstate New York, a farmer struggles to align his life with his values during his final year on the farm, questioning the moral quandary of animal agriculture.
Articles and Books on Animal Welfare, Veganism and the Environment
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Brian Kateman(Reducetarian Foundation), Meat me halfway(book and documentary)
Philip Lumbery(Compassion in World Farming), Farmageddon(book)
Philip Lumbery(Compassion in World Farming), 60 Harvests left
AyshaAkthar(Center for Contemporary Science), Our Symphony with Animals
Leah Garces (President of Mercy for Animals), Grilled. Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry.
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Michael Greger,Hownot to Die(book and lecture)
Michael Greger, Hownot to Die Cookbook
Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, The Plant-Based Athlete
Daniel Austin, The Way of the Vegan Meathead
Robert Cheekeand Vanessa Espinoza, Vegan muscle
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David Robinson Simon, Meatonomics
Peter Singer, Ethics into Action: Henry Spiraand the Animal Rights Movement
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals