FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) is a national, public-interest organization promoting plant-based (vegan) diets to save animals, reduce global warming, protect the environment, and improve public health. 

FARM works on a shoe-string budget through a network of grassroots volunteers to provide community-based events and free educational materials in all 50 states and two dozen other countries. 

FARM successes save animals from cruel confinement, mutilation and death in factory farms and slaughterhouses.  1,000,000 animals are killed every hour in the US alone.  Adopting and promoting veg eating is the best way to save the most animals.

FARM's Annual Campaigns include:
The Great American Meatout (March)
Vegan Earth Day (April)
Animal Rights National Conference (July/August)
World Farm Animals Day (October)
Gentle Thanksgiving (November)

FARM's Ongoing Campaigns include:
Bite Global Warming (meat is top greenhouse gas producer)
Green Your Diet (reducing waste and pollution)
Well-Fed World (plant-based hunger solutions)
Equal Justice Alliance (protecting activism)
Sabina Fund (grants for small groups)
Letter From FARM (letters to the editor)
HumaneFacts (show's "humane" loopholes)
Free Veg Starter Kits (in English and Spanish)

Campaign Details

Great American Meatout - On or around March 20 every year since 1985. Each Spring, thousands of activists throughout the United States and around the world promote the joys and benefits of "kicking the meat habit."

Animal Rights National Conference - brings together 800-1000 activists and newcomers to learn, build skills and create strategic plans to end animal exploitation.

World Farm Animals Day - October 2 (Gandhi's birthday) every year since 1983. This international event seeks to end factory farming and meat consumption by increasing the global awareness about the suffering of animals raised for food.

Gentle Thanksgiving - FARM promotes a life-affirming holiday with nutritious and delicious meat-alternatives.

Well-Fed World - works with global policy makers and public interest groups to promote sustainable, plant-based hunger solutions.

Sabina Fund - offers grants to small, grassroots organizations in the US and around the world to fund innovative start-up projects and events.

Letters From FARM - publishes over a thousand letters to the editor explaining the harm caused by factory farming, and the benefits of plant-based diets.

FARM grew out of the Vegetarian Information Service, which was formed in 1976 to disseminate information on the benefits of plant-based eating on consumer health, animal protection, and environmental integrity. FARM was officially launched as an animal rights organization in July 1981, along with other groups forming the modern US animal rights movement, at the "Action For Life" Conference in Allentown (PA). The conference brought seasoned leaders of the established vegetarian movement together with animal rights advocates searching for a national organizational outlet for their passion. 

As the animal protection movement has grown, FARM began using "Farm Animal Rights Movement" in addition to the IRS-name of "Farm Animal Reform Movement" to clarify our position as an animal rights group.  In short, the best way to treat animals humanely is to not eat them.

FARM has changed the way America thinks about what they eat.  Even those who are still eating animlas know that they are out of step with the future.  All animals are charter members of FARM and they are betting their lives on the success of this organization.  If there is to be peace on earth it must start at the table and FARM is leading the way.

- Howard “Mad Cowboy” Lyman, President, Voice for a Viable Future.  

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FARM removes the scales from the eyes of society so they might glimpse the horror on their plates.  From the pigpen to the frying pan, from the stockyard to the barbecue, FARM exposes the connections and forces people to confront their personal contributions to animal suffering.  FARM’s annual conference has mobilized, organized and led the animal rights movement.

- Captain Paul Watson, President, Sea Shepherd Conservation  Society  

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FARM is the most effective U.S. organization dedicated to stopping the suffering of farmed animals.  In Defense of Animals is pleased to co-sponsor FARM projects, including Meatout, World Farm Animals Day, and billboards touting a vegan diet.  I am proud to be a Board Member. 

– Dr. Elliot Katz, DVM, President, In Defense of Animals