Many people today take their “freedoms” and “rights” for granted without knowing the extent to which the freedoms and rights they take for granted were fought for by “radicals” who READ ON
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Ocasio-Cortez: Being Moral Over Correct
In her recent 60 Minutes interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a point that could be very instructive for vegans: “If people want to really blow up one figure here or READ ON
4 Anti-Vegan Story Formulas from Mainstream Media
As the popularity of independent media outlets surge, the audience for mainstream media is shrinking, and the latter’s acts of desperation are getting even harder to stomach, especially when it READ ON
‘It Was Soul Destroying’— UK Beef & Dairy Farmer Goes...
“I was born into cattle farming and everybody thought it was the natural thing to do for the son to take over the father’s role, maintaining the farm and continuing READ ON
What the ban on slaughtering cats and dogs says about our legal system
Last week Trump signed into law the 2019 Farm Bill which included a provision for banning the slaughter of dogs and cats for meat in the U.S. Let’s put aside the READ ON
Tell Ben & Jerry’s: exploiting animals is not progressive,...
Ben & Jerry’s has been owned by the huge multinational corporation Unilever since 2000 and yet continues to position its brand as part of the progressive movement. Its new Facebook ad (pictured above) is READ ON
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10 Mothers On Why They’re Saying NO To Dairy
As someone who researches the dairy industry regularly, I have observed over the last few years a distressing surge in pro-dairy messaging from an increasingly visible and vocal sector of READ ON
Is An Excuse-itarian Diet Keeping You From Living Your Own Values?
Colleen Patrick Goudreau’s rousing talk, “From Excuse-itarian to Vegan,” has reached nearly 100,000 viewers on youtube, and is a great tool for empowering others to live their own values of READ ON
I Visited A Small, Organic Dairy Farm to See If Animals Were Treated...
While passing a small dairy farm on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the Point Reyes National Seashore in early October, I made an impromptu visit to a small, family-owned, pasture-based, READ ON
Do Different People Really Need Radically Different Diets?
The concepts of personalized medicine and personalized nutrition have really taken off. People are eating according to their blood type, their metabolic type, their Ayurvedic constitution, and their genotype. Micaela READ ON
When I Look Inside the Trucks, I Look With My Heart
Each day that I wake up with the thought of bearing witness in mind, I feel that same knot in my chest anticipating how much suffering I will see during READ ON
What’s the Point of Keeping a Hen Who Cannot Lay Eggs?
A few years ago, I adopted a hen about whom I knew very little except that a farmer did not want her anymore because she had stopped laying eggs. The READ ON
