Resources For Education

To Promote Respect, Understanding and Compassion
for Humans, Animals and the Environment

Good news for teachers! Farm Sanctuary's Cultivating Compassion program makes it even easier for caring teachers to bring compassion to their classrooms. In an increasingly violent world in which making profits often takes precedence over seeking peace, Farm Sanctuary's Cultivating Compassion program offers materials designed to encourage respect and kindness toward all living beings and the environment. Farm Sanctuary is pleased to provide these resources FREE to teachers.

Cultivating Compassion: Teachers' Guide and Student Activities
Guides offers lesson plans, hand-outs, and activities for teaching that farmed animals have feelings, too. Elementary (grades 3-5), Intermediate (grades 6-8), and Secondary (grades 9-12) Levels available.

Life Behind Bars
Narrated by Mary Tyler Moore, this documentary compares a natural, humane life of farm animals with the cruel methods currently used on factory farms. Suitable for high school and college levels.

Additional Farm Sanctuary informational literature, including “Factory Farming: Destroying the Environment,” “How We Treat the Animals We Eat" and “Vegetarian Diets for Kids" brochures, is available. Although these brochures are not designed for children specifically, they are appropriate for students in grades 9-12.

Sign the Petition: That's NOT Natural

The USDA recently allowed companies to slap a "naturally raised" label on meat and meat products that come from animals whose upbringing was far from natural. Let the USDA know you won't stand for such deceptive claims. Sign the petition to tell the agency its "naturally raised" label is not natural!

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