Last week a fake news story broke and spread rapidly in right wing media outlets claiming that President Biden’s climate change mitigation policy would mean severely limiting or eliminating red READ ON
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Veterinarian Advocates “Humane” Mutilation?
A new article shared by the Dairy Herd offers tips from a veterinarian on how to make “dehorning” cows less painful. Dr. Hans Coetzee claims that “Using pain management tools READ ON
Forbes Fumbles on Covering Seaspiracy
Forbes, you need a better oceans reporter – a much better one! Ms. Allen shouldn’t go moonlighting as a movie critic, either. What a gross distortion her hatchet job on READ ON
Why You Need to See and Share Seaspiracy
Embarrassed by the publicity, some organizations and individuals featured in the documentary are now furiously backpedaling or disavowing it. The seafood industry, and seafood industry apologists including academics wed to READ ON
Prison Farms Got Your Goat?
According to CSC, its multi-million-dollar investment in an industrial goat farm pilot project is for the benefit of prisoners who will “acquire new skills.” The real reason: money. Canada’s prison READ ON
Call Out NPR for Normalizing Animal Exploitation!
Last Thursday we delivered a public comment at the NPR Directors Board Meeting about their thoughtless reporting on animal-related issues and their refusal to report on the serious public health 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
