Explainer
10 Reasons Not To Eat Turkey This Thanksgiving
From animal welfare to environmental impact, here are some reasons to opt out.
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Lifestyle
Reported
The Ugly, if Unsurprising, Truth About Collagen
The promise of eternal health and beauty comes at a steep price for animals, people and the environment.
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Reported
‘Blue Zones’: New Netflix Docuseries Highlights Plant-Based Longevity
A new four-part series on Netflix explores the secrets of centenarians around the world, including how they eat.
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Explainer
20 Healthy Plant-Based Protein Sources for a Sustainable Diet
Protein is an essential part of any heathy diet but it's possible to get all that you need from a healthy variety of plant-based sources.
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Analysis
Why Shark Fin Soup Is Still Served at Weddings
Shark finning is bad for animals and the environment yet the dish is still sometimes on the menu.
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Perspective
Yes, Starbucks Should Drop Its Plant Milk Surcharge — and Do A Lot More
Starbucks could easily drop its plant milk surcharge. If it believes its own climate rhetoric, it can’t afford not to.
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Perspective
Why Gen Z Is Going Plant-Based Faster Than Older Generations
Research shows that Gen Z is shifting to plant-based diets faster than older generations to avoid climate disaster. Will it be enough?
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Reported
KFC Adds Beyond Meat Fried Chicken to the Menu
KFC has a surprising number of vegan options. Recently, the fast food chain tested a new plant-based product, Beyond Fried Chicken, in select stores.
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Explainer
10 Exciting New Plant-Based Products Hitting Shelves This Year
Plant-based foods are one of the food industry's top-selling items. Here are a few of this year's trends, from "meatier" meat to plant-based seafood.
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Explainer
Why Don’t Buddhists Eat Meat?
Buddhism focuses on doing no harm. As a result, many of its 500 million practitioners around the world, though not all of them, abstain from eating meat.
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Explainer
Why Americans Are Choosing to Eat Less Meat
For the last several years, meat consumption in the United States has, in fact, been increasing. But many Americans are deciding to make a change.
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Explainer
Vegan Lifestyle: Why Veganism Is More Than Just a Diet
Veganism is much more than just a diet. It is a way of life that seeks to reduce suffering wherever it persists.
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Explainer
Plant-Based Seafood: The Next Frontier in Plant-Based Meat
Plant-based seafood, an alternative to traditional seafood, has been gaining popularity in recent years and provides a more reliable and sustainable source of food without sacrificing flavor.
Health•8 min read
Explainer
The Rise of Plant-Based Milk
The popularity of plant-based milks suggests a trend towards more compassion in the food system—for human health, the environment, and farmed animals.
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Reported
A Brief History of Meatless Meat and Milkless Cheese
Beyond Meat and Kite Hill were not the first plant-based products to gain international attention. It turns out these modern marvels are taking pages from our ancient culinary past.
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Perspective
How the Pandemic Is Changing Our Relationship with Nature
COVID-19 has revealed the deep interconnectedness of our planet, where an outbreak in China can lead to curfews in California.
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Analysis
Fish Without the Catch: Seafood Alternatives Are on the Rise
Innovative approaches to alternative seafood—like "fishless filets" and "crabless cakes"—could mitigate many of the environmental challenges presented by the modern fishing industry.
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Perspective
How the Western Diet Affects Global Food Choices
Foods that are popular in white-dominated, wealthy nations are often considered more desirable by developing countries, but they come with their own costs.
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Perspective
What Does “Milk” Mean to Indian Consumers?
The government has reevaluated what counts as milk and what doesn't, stifling competition for India's dairy sector, which is already the largest in the world.
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Perspective
Veganism in India: Goodmylk Founder Abhay Rangan Weighs In
The success of Rangan’s business lends credence to his steadfast belief that “what is good from an ethical standpoint is often what is good for [business] too.”
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Perspective
How My Family Came to Love a Plant-Based Thanksgiving
As more and more people stop eating animal products, families are finding new ways to share traditional holiday meals.
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Perspective
Interview with Tanya O’Callaghan and Derrick Green, Hosts of New Plant-Based Travel Show
The plant-based travel show, Highway to Health, takes the viewers through fascinating places around the world. Find out what's in store for season one.
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Reported
In Veg-Friendly India, Meat Consumption Is on the Rise
Since 2006, Indians have witnessed a major shift in the national diet: from vegetarian to one that contains more meat. But as diets continue to change, so will the climate.
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Perspective
Is Speciesism Driving the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Reluctance to question humans’ exploitation of animals creates a dangerous disconnect in the public's understanding of COVID-19 and its ongoing risks. Lorelei Plotczyk shares her perspective.
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Perspective
The Psychology of Blaming Others During the Time of COVID-19
Humans are emotionally invested in ensuring that, whatever happens, the spotlight of blame never shines directly on us. So we blame wet markets in Asia for the spread of COVID-19…
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Perspective
We Need To Evolve: The Gastro-Cultural & Ethnomedical Traditions That Got Us Here
As distinct as they are in place and time, zoonotic disease outbreaks all have one thing in common. They point to the prevailing gastro-cultural practices that welcome eating animals at…
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Perspective
Why Go Vegan in 2020
The farmed animal protection movement could define the 2020s. This is your chance to stand against animal cruelty and environmental destruction by choosing to eat only plants.
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Perspective
Vegan Burgers Lighten Women’s Mental Load
Cooking for family and friends is traditionally viewed as a feminine duty. Longtime vegan Caroline Beret explains how she's removing some of that stress by choosing pre-made plant-based alternatives instead.
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Perspective
Shoes That Fight Against Fast Fashion and Animal Cruelty
In a world where fashion trends come and go at the expense of animals and the environment, cruelty-free designer Kat Von D launches a luxe vegan shoe brand.
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Explainer
What Each Major Religion Says About Animal Rights
Animal rights and religion overlap in more ways than are currently spoken about or reported on. Here are what the most practiced religions say regarding animals rights.
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Perspective
Plant-Based Eating: Slowly But Surely Becoming Mainstream
Patrick Hukins was served non-vegan ham at an Australia-based Domino’s, raising the question of what challenges lie ahead for vegans as the world is slowly changing to accommodate the lifestyle.
Health•4 min read
Perspective
How We Introduce Animals to Children: A Story of Hypocrisy
How can we raise compassionate children if we teach them it's okay to mistreat animals as long as it's someone else doing it?
Health•6 min read
Explainer
Go Vegan: A Practical Vegan Guide for Beginners
Going vegan has never been easier. As grocery stores and restaurants add new vegan options and more information becomes available online, going vegan is the logical answer to anyone looking…
Health•16 min read
Analysis
How Many Vegans Are There Really in the U.S.?
It's a controversial question. So we put together a comprehensive timeline tracking 24 surveys of vegans over the past 25 years.
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Reported
Beyond Meat Stock Continues to Skyrocket, Up 240%
Beyond Meat IPO's is ringing all kinds of bells. Shares soared 167% on its debut last week. The valuation: $3.8 billion. What’s next for Wall Street’s freshest face?
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Perspective
Book Review: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy
Carnism isn’t unlearned until we “witness the truth of carnism while witnessing ourselves.” As Joy puts it, we need to show ourselves as much compassion during this process as we…
Health•6 min read
Reported
Welcome to the Vegan Capital of the World
A new from Chef’s Pencil has crowned a new vegan capital of the world using Google search data.
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Perspective
Book Review: How To Go Vegan by Kate Schuler
As we near the end of Veganuary, the annual challenge for non-vegans to go vegan for the month (and hopefully carry it into the rest of the new year), let’s…
Health•5 min read
Explainer
Fast Food’s Not-So-Secret Vegan (and Vegetarian) Menus
Making the most out of a not-so-good thing can feel, well, kinda good, like ordering off of the secret vegan and vegetarian menu at your local fast food joint. It’s…
Health•5 min read
Analysis
It Was a Record Year for Vegans. Why Are We Still Eating So Much Meat?
Peak meat is a frighteningly high point for the meat industry and a frighteningly low one for vegans. This too will pass. Change starts today. Choose not to eat meat…
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Perspective
Book Review: Protest Kitchen by Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina
Do you have the tools you need to fight? Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time (Conari Press 2018) by Carol…
Health•3 min read
Explainer
Becoming Vegan: What You Need to Know to Make the Change
Becoming vegan is one of the best ways in which you can contribute to a healthier environment — as well as a healthier you. While becoming vegan might seem like…
Health•16 min read
Perspective
Thanksgiving Is for Vegans, Too
Thanksgiving presents an opportunity for vegans to share their passion for food with friends and family. Vegans are turkey lovers in their own way, but they might have reservations about…
Health•5 min read
Reported
The World Needs More Vegan Chefs. Here’s Where to Look.
Vegan chefs are in high demand at the moment, so high that restaurants in London don't know where to look. That's largely because a third of UK consumers are reducing…
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Reported
Billion Vegans: The New Vegan Marketplace
There is an Amazon for vegans, and it's helping to define what we're calling the new vegan marketplace. Built on the belief that reliable product descriptions and affordable prices are…
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Reported
80% of Millennials Choose Alternatives to Meat
Guess who eats the most alternatives to meat, millennials or non-millennials? Okay, that was a leading question, I know. But I bet you'll still be happy to hear that 8…
Health•1 min read
Perspective
Read This Book: Genius Foods
Push Doctor/Flickr This one’s for the health nuts. In Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Harper Wave 2018), Max Lugavere approaches each…
Health•1 min read
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Organic Plant-Based Burgers Coming to Amazon Fresh
After selling over 1 million burgers in less than 60 days, Don Lee Farms' Organic Plant-Based Burger is coming to Amazon Fresh (soon)! For now, you can find the so-called…
Health•1 min read
Reported
More Than Half of Chefs Add Vegan Options to Menus
51% of chefs added vegan options to their menus in 2018, and it's paying off! Last year, self-identifying vegans skyrocketed by 300%. Now that the restaurant owners are following the…
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Americans Are Eating More Meat Than Ever
The average American ate more meat in 2017 than ever, and meat-eating Americans are on track to do it again. Companies like the Good Food Institute are rallying to find…
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