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Rethinking My White Vegan Advocacy at Thanksgiving

By Sarah Withrow King Five years ago, I wrote an article for CreatureKind called “Turkey Talk: Christians and the Thanksgiving Meal.” Even though all the facts about turkeys remain true, I wouldn’t write that article today. I confess that the article as it’s written upholds settler colonial ideas, failing to spend

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Reflections on COVID-19: Suffering from Exile

by Ashley Lewis Throughout scripture, human and non-human animals are bound up in each other’s lives. In the Garden of Eden, animals and humans shared the experiences of creation and vocation. Aside from immediate family, Noah’s only companions on the ark were animal-kind. From Abraham to Joseph, sheep and goats are

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Three Must-Watch Videos on Farms and Farming

by Sarah Withrow King Wondering what to do this weekend? Need resources to help raise discussion in your church or school on why Christian attention to food and farming is so urgent? Check out these three must-watch videos on farms and farming. 73 Cows Alex Lockwood | 73 Cows At about

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Love This, a poem by Gretchen Primack

Dairy cows who have had their babies removed from them so that we can drink their milk, watch the new mother bond with her calf. Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur | We Animals Love This If you permitthis evil, what is the goodof the good of your life?—Stanley Kunitz The body floods with

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Unexpected Gifts

And it all started with a choice. A choice to listen and to suspend judgement. A choice to follow the line of questioning, wherever that would lead me. A choice to abandon my blissful ignorance in pursuit of a more authentic and gospel-rooted life.

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Are Farmers to Blame for Factory Farming?

The problem with these systems is not malicious farmers, but production and retail systems that produce animal products for sale at a price that is wholly incompatible with a good life for the animals unfortunate enough to be caught up in them. 

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Why Focus on Farmed Animals?

CreatureKind focuses on farmed animals because, in terms of both quantity and quality, the animals in our industrial farm animal production system are the most oppressed, abused, and disregarded animals in the world.

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