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Help Stop the Cruel Treatment of Chicks Heading to Slaughter!
Call and email Health Commissioner Arwady to express your outrage at Slaughter Free Chiago’s footage from Aden Live Poultry and urge her to shut them down immediately.
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Please help us send a strong message to Biden that his pick of Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture is unacceptable, especially based on his record under the Obama administration.
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A recent study on diet and bone health spawned a slew of misleading headlines claiming that vegans are at significantly greater risk of bone fracture than nonvegans. A closer look READ ON
Hold Illinois Governor Pritzker Accountable for his Huge New...
In a press release issued yesterday, the Governor’s office has announced with much fanfare the development of a huge new insect breeding facility to supply livestock and fish feed in READ ON
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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
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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
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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
