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 HUMANE MYTH GLOSSARY
Abolition
Animal advocacy
Animal husbandry
Animal protection
Animal rights
Animal welfare
Animal welfare industrial complex
Animal-using industries
Co-option
Commodification
Conflict of Interest
Conscience
Conscientious objection
Critical thinking
Cruelty-free
Disillusionment
Doctrine of necessary evil
Happy Meat
Hogwashing
Humane myth
Humane slaughter
Neocarnism
Non-participation and Non-cooperation
Non-violent social change
Open Rescue
Path of Conscience
Plant-based diet
Privilege of domination
Speciesism
Suffering
Sustainable
Utilitarianism
Values-based activism
Vegan


 


 MythWatch: Examining the Humane Myth in the Media


MythWatch offers an in-depth analysis of the ways the humane myth plays out in the media, obscuring the reality of what happens to animals used for human purposes and of the long term effects on our culture, human health, and our environment. It also explores the public confusion and conflict of interest issues that develop when animal advocacy organizations involved in animal advocacy become involved with promoting alternative "humane" animal products.  



HSUS outreach director sends pigs "raised like children" to slaughter HSUS staffer Maxwell speaks of "moving 900 to 1100 fat hogs each week," for which he is paid $1.04 a pound, and tells how he sees his job as expanding the market for "humane" meat....more
Gone 7 in 10 biologists believe that mass extinction poses a colossal threat to human existence...In a staggering forecast, Wilson predicts that our present course will lead to the extinction of half of all plant and animal species by the year 2100....more
A Farm Boy Reflects Do the dramatic contradictions expressed in this article reveal an underlying struggle to overcome the guilt associated with complicity in the harm and killing of others? ...more
Guess Who's Coming As Dinner? Is the blurring of the identity of animal sanctuaries and "humane farms" a natural consequence of animal advocacy groups purposely co-mingling their language with that of the "progressive" side of the animal-using industries?...more
Eggology Becomes First Egg Products Brand Certified Humane Endorsed by The Humane Society of the United States Why do the animal advocates behind the "Certified Humane" standard consider it necessary and acceptable to mutilate the beaks of chickens? ...more
HFS flees the coop for sustainability Does the need to "close the sale" on "cage-free" eggs drive well-meaning advocates to join the animal-using industry in deliberately misleading the public?...more
Why Vegetarians are Eating Meat If intelligent and caring people are now being convinced to resume eating animal products for reasons of conscience, hasn‘t something gone terribly wrong in the animal advocacy movement? ...more
Eggland's Best to Receive Certification by American Humane Association Is there any way to breed beings into existence, and then take their lives for the sake of profit that is not exploitative by definition?...more
Veal to Love, Without the Guilt D‘Agostino, the 20-store supermarket chain in New York, said that its sales of veal have jumped 35 percent since it began carrying "certified humane" veal only....more
Invasion of the Movement Snatchers We should be concerned that today‘s animal movement so closely resembles the vision of moral compromise, division and debilitation put forth by an industry PR consultant....more
Veal, without the cruelty Is putting groups of calves in a pen with an unrelated "retired" dairy cow a realistic way to address the physical and emotional trauma of being taken from one‘s mother shortly after birth?...more
 
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Advocacy-Industry Collaboration
    HSUS outreach director sends pigs "raised like children" to slaughter
    Freedom Food Investigation
    Eggology Becomes First Egg Products Brand Certified Humane Endorsed by The Humane Society of the United States
    Eggland's Best to Receive Certification by American Humane Association
    WOLFGANG PUCK: Eat, Love, Live
    Chef Wolfgang Puck Takes Eating Well to New Level
    Is HSUS cage-free egg campaign really the answer?
    Letter from 17 Animal Advocacy Organizations Endorsing Whole Foods' "Animal Compassionate" Standards

Animals, and Who They Are
    Peaceable Journey
    Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home
    Mother Hen and Baby Chick

Cage-Free Eggs
    Our big appetite for eggs
    The Faces of "Free Range" Farming
    HFS flees the coop for sustainability
    A Rare Glimpse Inside A "Free Range" Egg facility

Critical Thinking
    The Politics of Optimism
    Hogwash! Or, How Animal Advocates Enable Corporate Spin
    Project for the New American Carnivore
    Truthiness is Stranger than Fiction
    Invasion of the Movement Snatchers
    Compassion for Sale?

Global Warming & Sustainability
    A Life Connected
    Gone
    Vegetarian is the New Prius
    Sustainable, Free-Range Farms and Other Tall Tales

Happy Meat
    A Farm Boy Reflects
    Alternatives gain attention amid Chino abuse case
    Guess Who's Coming As Dinner?
    Meat Labels Hope to Lure the Sensitive Carnivore
    Humane Choice Press Release

Religion, Spirituality & Humane Myth
    Caring Carnivore

Resurgence of Veal
    Veal, without the cruelty
    Veal to Love, Without the Guilt
    The real deal about veal
    More humane free-range veal being marketed

Vegans, Vegetarians Eating Meat
    Rediscovering the joy of meat
    Back in Rack
    Why Vegetarians are Eating Meat