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Eating Meat Is Still the Norm. We Have to Change That.

Research shows that the best way to have a lasting effect on consumer behavior is to attack the point of normalcy. What does that mean? Well, for more than 300…

Diet•8 min read

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Book Review: Why You Eat What You Eat by Rachel Herz

There’s are reasons behind what we eat, whether it’s how much sugar we eat or why we feel so much better eating plants.

Research•5 min read

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A Letter to the Most Factory-Farmed District in the United States

Factory farms need to hear from you through petitions, letters from student governments, and calls to your representatives in Congress. And they need to hear from you because the end…

Food•5 min read

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The Farm Bill Is a Big Win for Animals. Here’s Why.

Animal advocates, time to celebrate. The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill signals the resilience of animal protection laws on a national level, something advocates have not seen the likes…

Factory Farms•6 min read

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Man’s Best Friend Not Safe Inside Carrefour Stores

Protests erupted in Brazil after a dog was killed inside a Carrefour supermarket. A security guard savagely beat the animal to death.

Factory Farms•6 min read

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There’s Meat on the Menu at the UN Climate Change Conference. That Should Scare You.

Attendees have twice as many meat-based entrees as plant-based ones to choose from the menu at this year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, according…

Climate•6 min read

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Book Review: Nourishment by Fred Provenza

The shortest line to draw between humankind and nature is what we eat. Read this book and you'll surely be convinced of that.

Health•5 min read

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This Is Why Politicians Need to Start Writing More Plant-Based Policy

According to the comprehensive, 52-source study published in Climate Policy, we have reached peak livestock. Politicians can recognize this by writing it into their climate mitigation plans for 2020.

Factory Farms•5 min read

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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…

Diet•5 min read

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Clean Meat: The Logical Solution to End Factory Farming

Clean meat is a relatively new idea and one that will likely be called numerous things as it grows. Some people and organizations are calling it "cultured meat," "cruelty-free meat,"…

Breakthroughs•16 min read

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There’s No Covering Up the Awful Smell of Factory Farming

The neighbors of factory farms are choking on toxic gases produced by farm animals, and the farmers know it. In September, a $400 million dollars lawsuit shut down the largest…

Climate•6 min read

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Book Review: The End of Animal Farming by Jacy Reese

There's a certain excitement that comes from measuring the moral progress of a generation: new directions, hard work, little victories. This book is a battle cry.

Farms•5 min read

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Robots Won’t Fix Animal Agriculture’s Welfare Problem

Cargill's latest investments in robotics is a three-wheeled corralling robot that cost $40,000, which the company says reduces the stress of cattle. The company, very strangely, calls the robot an…

Science•5 min read

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Read This Book: Unsavory Truth

Yet another gem of food science from Marion Nestle—author of Food Politics and What to Eat—Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat (Basic 2018) explores…

Research•1 min read

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Read This Book: The Tangled Tree

All history books should start like The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Simon & Schuster 2019). David Quammen’s groundbreaking work sweeps across reams of real, scientific data…

Research•1 min read

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Read This Book: Poached

Wildlife Alliance/Flickr Journalist Rachel Love Nuwer reports from the front lines of the cruel trade of the world’s most exotic creatures in Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking…

Climate•1 min read

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Read This Book: The Ravenmaster

Tell me about the last raven you saw. How close did you get? How much did you really see? In The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens in the Tower…

Climate•1 min read

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Read This Book: How to Be a Good Creature

Do you ever think about how to be a good citizen of the world? It’s a big question, and not always a fun one to answer. Sometimes it’s easier to…

Research•1 min read

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Read This Book: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants

Plants are good for us. Of the species we’ve discovered so far, 31,000 can be used for something other than photosynthesis and 18,000 of those have practical, medical applications. Stefano…

Climate•1 min read

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Read This Book: The Truth About Animals

Let’s talk about sloths. Lucy Cooke founded the Sloth Appreciation Society with one thought in mind: Being fast is overrated. Her book The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos,…

Climate•1 min read

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North Carolina: Petri Dish for Industry-Favoring Agricultural Laws

North Carolina has been and still is a hub for some of the most restrictive and controversial laws in the country, including those favoring the animal ag industry.

Factory Farms•8 min read

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Read This Book: The Secret Life of Cows

Did you know that cows can express social preferences? For some people, that’s as easy as saying cows have spots. But most of us have to think twice. Rosamund Young…

Research•1 min read

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Read This Book: American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee

During Wyoming's first legal wolf hunting season in 50 years, it cost just $12 to tag a wolf. Today, the wolf roams wild and (not-so) free in Nate Blakeslee’s American…

Climate•1 min read

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McDonalds Celebrates 50 Years of Big Mac: Estimated 11 Million Animals Have Been Slaughtered for the Sandwich

The Big Mac was first launched 50 years ago. Over the decades, the sandwich has become legendary to the point of being a comparative instrument in international economics in the…

Food•1 min read