Resources.

If you are interested in learning more about Animal Activism and/or Animal Rights, here are some of our favourite resources and organizations that’d we recommend you check out.

Podcast: What it’s like to run a farm sanctuary

Listen to the The Vancouver Humane Society’s podcast episode, “What it’s like to run a farm sanctuary,” and hear the founder and guardian of the Alice Sanctuary, J and others share the successes, challenges, and opportunities in running an animal sanctuary.

Listen to this podcast episode

Recommended Organizations

  • Animal Justice

    “We believe that animals need lawyers, and our legal team works to protect animals from cruelty and neglect. Canada has some of the worst animal protection laws in the Western world, and our mission is to overhaul the legal system to better reflect our country’s values of compassion and justice for all.”

    Animal Justice
  • Open Sanctuary

    “The Open Sanctuary Project is a freely accessible, always growing digital guide for any resources or information you need in order to responsibly create and successfully manage an animal sanctuary or to provide the best possible care to animals in order to help them live long, healthy, happy lives free of exploitation.”

  • Sentient Media

    “Sentient 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 … Sentient’s content is fact-checked and science-driven, with reporting that serves readers ... interested in the impacts of what they eat on animals, climate, water and their local economy. “

    Sentient

Recommended Materials

  • "Transfarmation" by Leah Garcés

    “In Transfarmation, president and CEO of Mercy For Animals Leah Garcés explains how food and farming policies have failed over decades and offers insights into the wave of change coming from a new crop of farmers and communities who are constructing a humane and sustainable farming system.

    Factory animal farming faces an abundance of issues—from environmental concerns and animal cruelty, to exploited farmers and poor working conditions—and more and more farmers are searching for a way out and for a new start.

    Garcés demonstrates the reasons why we must end factory farming and calls on readers to imagine a future world where Transfarmation is complete and we have transitioned to a just food and farming system.”

  • "Farm Sanctuary" by Gene Baur

    “A collection of over 150 inspiring and life-changing images and poignant stories reflecting Farm Sanctuary’s forty years of rescue, education, and advocacy efforts to end the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, people, and the planet and to encourage a more just and sustainable food system.

    This book offers an inspiring testament to the power of kindness and action, encouraging readers to consider their own choices and join the movement toward a more just and humane world for everyone.

    A powerful retrospective that chronicles Farm Sanctuary’s humble beginnings in 1986 to its leading role in the fight for ethical, sustainable, and compassionate food systems, Farm Sanctuary: Forty Years of Hope and Healing features powerful images, personal reflections from activists and supporters, and moving commentary on the evolving and life-changing landscape of animal agriculture.”

    "Farm Sanctuary" by Gene Baur
  • "Little Red Barns" by Will Potter

    Little Red Barns is the record of a harrowing journey that took investigative journalist Will Potter from factory farms to international climate summits, from Congressional hearings to neo-Nazi fascist groups.

    As Potter uncovers the frightening truth about animal agriculture's role in accelerating climate collapse, he shows how the authoritarian measures being taken to maintain control over this key aspect of the global food supply chain are directly linked to the proliferation and empowerment of far-right militias. Confronting a maelstrom of disturbing information, he asks searching questions about a journalist's role in the 21st century and the impact of bearing witness in a world in which we are bombarded with ‘news,’ both real and faked.”

    "Little Red Barns" by Will Potter