The animal rights movement is on the rise, as demonstrated by the tens of thousands of people who marched this past week in Official Animal Rights Marches in New York and Los Angeles, in London and Toronto, in Melbourne and Tel Aviv, and in many other...
When I first learned them word activism, it conjured up images of loud demonstrations, people chained to trees whilst surrounded by police and journalists, undercover visits to slaughterhouses with secret cameras, or even the nighttime rescuing of laboratory...
The Swiss military has reversed their decision to not allow vegans to serve in the army thanks to now 20-year old, Antoni Da Campo from Valais, Switzerland. The Swiss man who is a strict vegan, was refused acceptance for military service in December ...
You may think that Australia is doing pretty well when it comes to looking after our animals. The truth of the matter is that we could be doing a lot better. When World Animal Protection put out an Animal Protection Index in 2014, Australia received ...
Plastic debris that ends up in the ocean has various harmful effects on marine life. It’s been ingested by at least 700 marine species, from fish to mammals to seabirds. Plastic pollution can also entangle, suffocate and drown sea-dwelling creatures....
There are three and a half times as many vegans in Britain now than there were a decade ago – over half a million of us – and going vegan is predicted to be the biggest food trend in 2018. This, naturally, also means that the vegan consumer market has...
An NHS Foundation Trust in London were discriminating against vegans in a job advertisement for an Occupational Therapist in Eating Disorders. The original advert stated: “Unfortunately [applicants] with vegan diets cannot be considered.” The Vegan ...
AS A pre-teen, my attempts to get into animal rights activism were always stunted by one thing, the fact that I still ate meat and animal product s. My experience of pets, having had dogs, four cats, experience with small rodents, fish and rabbits, had...
When I first got into the whole animal rights scene back in the early 80's, I was a real pain in the ass to the people around me. . I was intolerably judgmental towards old friends who hadn’t made the leap with me and mad at them for not being as enlightened...
One of the most common accusations against vegans from pre-vegans is that they care for other animals more than they care for humans. They seem to believe that we have not space for everyone in our hearts. It always strikes me as stunning that pre-vegans...
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