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Are we at risk for a swine flu outbreak?

Can Swine Flu Infect People?

Most human cases of swine flu are found at agricultural fairs but there are other disease hotspots to consider, like factory farms.

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What Is a Vegan and Why You Should Consider Veganism

Becoming a vegan isn’t as tough as people think, and it certainly doesn’t make you sick or weak. It’s simply a decision you make to improve your health and protect animals from needless slaughter.

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80% of Millennials Choose Alternatives to Meat

Guess who eats the most alternatives to meat, millennials or non-millennials? Okay, that was a…

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Is Vegetarianism Healthy?

Throughout history, there have been doubts about the health benefits of vegetarianism. In the 1980s,…

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Read This Book: Genius Foods

Push Doctor/Flickr This one’s for the health nuts. In Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and…

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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…

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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!…

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Vegans Are 15% Less Likely to Get Cancer

New research found that being vegetarian or vegan significantly lowers the risk of heart disease…

Americans Are Eating More Meat Than Ever

The average American ate more meat in 2017 than ever, and meat-eating Americans are on…

What Does It Mean to Be Vegetarian or Vegan?

Many different forms of vegetarianism exists but at its core it is defined as a…

U.S. Latinos Embracing Vegan-Mexican Cuisine

Vox: There are 311 threatened species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The Trump Administration wants to narrow the definition of “threatened” to a case-by-case basis and bar the sage grouse and burying beetle from the endangered species list for 10 years.

NPR: Latinos are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than whites. Their families (and family restaurants) are rallying around them and going vegan.

WeWork Bans Meat

WeWork’s meat ban could save 15,507,103 animals and 445 million pounds of CO2 emissions and…

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Read This Book: Skeptical Vegan

Skeptical Vegan is a salt-of-the-earth story about on how it felt to grow up and one night go vegan.