The humane hoax: Cage-free, free-range, humane… What do the labels really mean?

Join author and activist Hope Bohanec as we dig into her edited volume The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs. Hope will examine the new trend of humanewashing and greenwashing in animal product marketing. Labels like cage-free eggs, family-farmed dairy, and grass-fed meat are everywhere— but is this trend really the answer to the numerous concerns of raising animals for food? What do the labels really mean? Is free-range better for the environment? Is organic more humane? This presentation offers answers to these critical questions. --- Hope Bohanec has been active in animal protection and environmental activism for over 30 years. She is the Executive Director of Compassionate Living and the host of the Hope for the Animals Podcast. Hope co-founded the Humane Hoax Project, the Ahimsa Living Project and has organized hundreds of online and in-person events including the Humane Hoax Online Conference, the Humane Hoax Chicken Webinar, and the Sonoma County VegFest. Hope has also published two books on the subject of humanewashing and greenwashing: The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat? and The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs. Over the last three decades, she has worked for the national non-profits United Poultry Concerns and In Defense of Animals as well as contributed chapters to two anthologies.