About Us
Planet Friendly News (PFN) is a Canadian digital news outlet that lives at the intersection of food, climate, animal protection and biodiversity issues.
We share information on how our food is produced and what we eat to help people make more informed choices to reduce our carbon footprint, lessen our negative impacts on the climate, environment, wild and farmed animals, and people’s health. Taken together, our actions can help us preserve a liveable planet.
Our editorial and production team is self-funded—no donors, no advertising—so we are totally independent of special or vested interests.
After five years, we are ceasing to publish new content for Planet Friendly News at the end of 2023. When we began, only a few small media outlets were talking about the harms of industrialized animal agriculture.
Since then, the landscape has shifted and now these types of stories are appearing in mainstream media on a regular basis and awareness of these issues has grown exponentially.
We will continue to participate in discussions about these issues on social media on Facebook, X and Instagram, and you can still access our catalogue of stories on our website.
PFN is a partner in Covering Climate Now (CCNow), a global collaboration of more than 500 media outlets including The Guardian, Time magazine, CBS News, and Reuters. CCNow reaches an audience of more than two billion people to help ensure the most consequential story of our time receives the attention it deserves.
PFN supports The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada’s Roots & Shoots youth environmental leadership program in schools and universities across Canada.
PFN is an ongoing supporter of We Animals Media, the world's leading animal photojournalism agency whose ground-breaking images document our fraught relationships with animals around the world.
PFN supports World Animal Protection Canada with special emphasis on their farmed animal welfare campaigns.
