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YES! on Prop 2
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Writers Join Farm Forward to Endorse Landmark Bill

Alice Walker and Michael Pollan are just two of the eight authors who joined Farm Forward in speaking out on behalf of Proposition 2 and billions of factory farmed animals in California.


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Heritage
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Creating a New Future for Poultry

Farm Forward Board Member Frank Reese has never been interested in following the dominant trends in the poultry industry, but his Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch might just be the future of turkey farming in America.


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Farm Forward Launches
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Finding New Ways to Improve Farming for All of Us

Welcome to Farm Forward! We are proud to announce the launch of our new website and to begin our exciting work with farmers, corporations, nonprofits, and consumers to change farming forever.


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Free Range Pigs?
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Meet the man who reinvented the way pigs are raised (and find out where you can buy his pork).


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"Pork-Making"
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From "Pigmanship" to "Pork-Making by Applied Mathematics": A brief history of the modern pig.


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Humane Fish?
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Is there a humane way to slaughter a fish?


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Chicken vs. Chimp
D5A3DBF3-0B8B-4696-929C58D45F3D50A3.jpgNew studies suggest chickens have some intellectual abilities that surpass primates. Is it true?
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Anything Goes
k10003-17.jpgChickens are the most abused of all farmed animals, and yet they are completely unprotected under U.S. federal law.
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The Lives of Cattle
1-1210683503aUt4.jpgAmazing facts about the lives of cows.
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Are Cowboys Kinder?
Paul Willis Feeds the Boars.jpgMeet the modern cowboys who are transforming cattle welfare—and those who are trying to destroy them.
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Cows and Calves

Cattle are the only farmed animals that typically spend part of their lives unconfined and outdoors. Does that mean cattle raised for beef have the best lives of any farmed animal?

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Pigs

More than 97 percent of America’s hog farmers have been driven out of business, but we’re producing more pork than ever. Genetically engineered pigs raised in intensive confinement have become the industry standard. How did it happen?

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Poultry

Americans eat more than 100 times as much chicken meat as we did a century ago. But the whopping 9 billion chickens we eat each year are genetically engineered, drugged, and sick. What happened?

  • Anything Goes - Chickens are the most abused of all farmed animals, and yet they are completely unprotected under US federal law.
  • Chicken vs. Chimp - New studies suggest chickens have some intellectual abilities that surpass primates. Is it true?
  • Chickens and Turkeys Raised Right - Meet America’s last poultry farmer.

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Sea Animals

Fish factory farms and industrial fishing are emptying our oceans. In some industries, up to 98 percent of the sea animals caught are thrown back, dead, as "bycatch." Can we fish better?

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