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Online VEG Outreach: How To Be A Digital Activist
Some vegans and vegetarians are content to change their own diet and be done with it. I, however, am not one of those. I am in a constant state of trying to spread the VEG love, impacting even more animals by educating others. I hand out Vegan Outreach leaflets, work full-time for a vegan nonprofit, [...]
HSUS Works With World’s Largest Food Service Company To Offer More Meat-Free Options
7. January 2010
The Humane Society of the United States is giving a big thumbs up to the Compass Group — the world’s largest food service company — for it’s brand new “Be a Flexitarian” initiative. The animal organization worked closely with Compass on the campaign, which will immediately expand the variety and supply of meat-free options for its [...]
Dear New York Times Editor: Surely You’re Joking?
22. December 2009
I have a pet plant. I walk her, buy her Hanukah gifts, pet her, snuggle with her, and give her treats. Oh wait, that’s my rescue dog. Her name is Rose. But for the purpose of this discussion, let’s just call her “Sentient.” Sentient took a walk in the snow yesterday, and the salt on the ground [...]
Farm Animal Activist Plans Awareness-Raising Cross-Country Bike Ride
17. December 2009
‘Tis the season for giving. And who better to give to than the coolest vegan you’ve ever met? Even if you haven’t met Greg Straight Edge, trust me here, he’s amazing: thoughtful, talented, inspirational, selfless, and a true hands-down activist (he even won Farm Sanctuary’s Friends of Farm Animals award last summer).And he wants to ride [...]
Huge Victory! Under European Union Law Animals Are Considered “Sentient Beings”
2. December 2009
The Brits did it again. Yesterday, the European Union legally recognized that all animals – including fish and farmed animals – are “sentient beings.” For those of you who were paying attention in the 90s, you might recall that this already happened in 1997. But back then it was a loosely-attached part of the “founding treaty [...]
Marisa Miller Wolfson’s Vegan At Heart Weekly Mission
18. November 2009
I love me some Thanksgiving! I mean really, what’s better than sitting around the dinner table with friends and family enjoying some homemade nosh? Sure, the tradition is a little jenky (celebrating the slaughtering of a race of people with the slaughtering of a race of animals), but taking a moment to be thankful for [...]
Elizabeth Kucinich: PCRM’s New Director Of Public Affairs
2. November 2009
We love the Kucinich family. We love the Physicans Committee for Responsible Medicine family. Put them together and what do you get? Pure, unleaded awesomeness! The Washington Post recently reported that Elizabeth Kucinich is the new Director of Public Affairs for PCRM — a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics [...]
Daily Dose Of B-12: Isa Chandra Moskowitz On Effective Activism
28. October 2009
“I think that activism isn’t what you decide to do but how it affects people. So if someone says, I’m going to become an activist! I’m going to stand on a street corner and preach about veganism! And then they go ahead and do that but no one listens and no one becomes vegan, then [...]
Marisa Miller Wolfson’s Vegan At Heart Weekly Mission
26. October 2009
Sometimes speaking up is the only way to get things done. This week, Marisa Miller Wolfson is challenging you to ask a local store or eating establishment to carry one of your favorite vegan products. Want to know more? Scroll down and get your Vegan at Heart Weekly Mission on! Weekly Mission: Ask and Ye Shall (Probably) [...]
American Hospitals Begin To Make Connection Between Diet And Health
19. October 2009
I recently stumbled upon some exciting news in the health care world: hospitals are catching on to the fact that meat is not good for the environment, their budget, their patients’ health, or even the animals! Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has introduced the Balanced Menus Challenge, a program that asks health care institutions to reduce [...]
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