Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry.

Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens as friendly creatures who live happily within the confines of a peaceful family farm, arriving as food for humans only at the end of their sun-drenched lives. That's what Gene Baur had been told -- but when he first visited a stockyard he realized that this rosy depiction couldn't be more inaccurate.

Amid the stench, noise,...

Vegan 1 Day, Stories of Living the Good Life is a love story between two people, and the world around them, that offers a simple message - when love and compassion guide us, the world we live in can be a kinder, healthier place. With grit, prose, and humor, endurance stand up paddler John Merryfield and his wife Carol Merryfield recount harrowing and heartwarming stories of love and adventure in their enthusiasm for living the fullness of every day. In this compilation of essays, and plant-based wisdom, the Merryfields share their adventures all the way from surfing hurricane swell in Baja,...

In Advocates for Animals Girshick focuses on the volunteers and organizations that fill the gap in what laws, policies, practices, and services do not address for animal rights and protection. 204 personal reflections teach about their paths to involvement, what they do and hope to achieve, and how this has impacted their lives.

A moving collection of intimate portraits of farm animals who somehow escaped the typical fate of their kind and got to experience old age. These photos have so much personality, and Leshko supplements them with accounts of each animal's life and her experience photographing them.