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Why Are Wild Horses Brutally Uprooted From Public Lands While Private Livestock Can Stay?

By Ginger Fedak

In Defense of Animals | Earth | Food | Life

A Less of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly

By Josh Balk

Earth | Food | Life

How to Fix Our Food System

By Reynard Loki

Earth | Food | Life

What Factory Farm Conditions Do to Animals -- Including Humans

By Tia Schwab

Earth | Food | Life | Stone Pier Press

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Guide to Conscious Consumption

Conscious consumption, or conscious consumerism, can be accomplished in a variety of ways, such as shopping for food products that avoid harm to nonhuman animals, using green cleaning products, drinking shade-grown, fair-trade coffee and organic wine free of harmful pesticides, driving small electric vehicles over instead of gas-guzzling SUVs, and boycotting fast-fashion brands and businesses that treat workers unfairly. This guide will help you make buying decisions that are healthier for you, your family, nonhuman animals, and the planet.

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Daniel Klem, Jr.

Daniel Klem Jr. is the Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology and director of the Acopian Center for Ornithology at Muhlenberg College.

Brittany Michelson

Brittany Michelson is an animal rights activist, writer and former teacher.

Ginger Fedak

Ginger Fedak is the wild horse and burro campaign director at In Defense of Animals. A lifelong animal welfare advocate and horse professional, Fedak has spent decades teaching about and advocating for domestic and wild horses.

Lucy Goodchild van Hilten

Lucy Goodchild van Hilten is a writing fellow at Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She has served as assistant editor of Microbiology Today and senior marketing communications manager for Life Sciences at Elsevier. She holds an MSc degree in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Imperial College London.

Jennifer Barckley

Jennifer Barckley is the vice president of communications at The Humane League.

Laurel Sutherlin

Laurel Sutherlin is the senior communications strategist for Rainforest Action Network. He is a lifelong environmental and human rights campaigner as well as a naturalist and outdoor educator with a passion for birds and wild places. Follow him on Twitter @laurelsutherlin.

Jenny Canham

Jenny Canham is a leading professional in the animal protection sector. She works with governments, corporations and the public to achieve critical changes for animals. She is the campaigns and public affairs specialist at Animal Equality, an international animal protection organization.

Laura Lee Cascada

Laura Lee Cascada is the campaigns director for the Better Food Foundation and the founder of the Every Animal Project, a collection of true tales reshaping our relationship with animals.

Mikhala Kaseweter

Mikhala Kaseweter, MSc, advances right relationships with nonhuman animals through her work at the Better Food Foundation.

Carrie P. Freeman

Carrie P. Freeman, PhD, is a professor of communication at Georgia State University and is a co-founder of Animals and Media.

Carter Dillard

Carter Dillard is the policy adviser for the Fair Start Movement. He served as an Honors Program attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and also served with a national security law agency before developing a comprehensive account of reforming family planning for the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal.

Anita Krajnc

Anita Krajnc is executive director of the Animal Save Movement and global coordinator of the Plant Based Treaty initiative.

Nital Jethalal

Nital Jethalal is a policy analyst and economist.  He currently serves as strategist and policy advisor for the Plant Based Treaty and also oversees economics and policy research for Plant Based Data. Nital is also the president of  VegTO and a director at the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank.

Debra Merskin

Debra Merskin, PhD, is a professor of media studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon and is a co-founder of Animals and Media.

Nina Jackel

Nina Jackel is the founder of Lady Freethinker, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to exposing and stopping the suffering of animals, humans, and the planet. Find them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Tia Schwab

Tia Schwab is a former news fellow for Stone Pier Press, a San Francisco-based environmental publishing company with a food focus. She is a graduate of Stanford University, where she studied human biology with a concentration in food systems and public health. Tia was born and raised in Austin, Texas, and she is passionate about using storytelling to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system.

Leslie Crawford

Leslie Crawford is the author of Sprig the Rescue Pig and Gwen the Rescue Hen, both published by Stone Pier Press. She lives in San Francisco with her two children, six hens, and four foster pigeons. No partridges. Follow her on Twitter @lesliemcrawford.

Vicky Bond

Vicky Bond is a veterinary surgeon, animal welfare scientist, and the president of The Humane League.

Reynard Loki

Reynard Loki is a co-founder of the Observatory, where he is the environment and animal rights editor. He is also a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute, where he serves as the editor and chief correspondent for Earth | Food | Life.

Katherine Dolan

Katherine Dolan is a writer, editor, and researcher at the Independent Media Institute from Dunedin, New Zealand. Katherine has held previous posts as a senior writer for Fairfax Media Custom Publishing in New Zealand and Lifestyle Magazine in Moscow, and as a copy editor for the U.S. news site NSFWCORP.

Alicia Graef

Alicia Graef is a guardian and dog meat campaigner at In Defense of Animals. A lifelong animal lover and freelance writer with a Bachelor’s degree in animal and veterinary science, Alicia has covered issues relating to animals for more than a decade.

Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of 31 books of nonfiction for adults and children. She is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the Humane Society and the New England Booksellers Association.

Karen Davis

Karen Davis, PhD, is the president and founder of United Poultry Concerns, an award-winning animal rights activist and the author of numerous books.