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U.S. to Start Exporting Beef to China – Wrong Direction on Many Fronts
A new trade deal was announced last week to allow U.S. beef exports to flow into China, while opening the U.S. market for Chinese cooked chicken imports. […]
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Penguins are Facing Extinction – Livestock and Overfishing are to Blame
Penguins and other species are facing extinction as fishing fleets harvest their prey for livestock feed. […]
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Happy 91st Birthday to Sir David Attenborough
At age 92 today, Sir David Attenborough continues steadfast in raising awareness about the plight of wildlife, the precarious state of our planet’s living systems, and the impact of our rapidly growing human population. […]
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Amphibians Survived the Last Mass Extinction – But Will They Survive Humans?
Amphibians survived the last mass extinction, which happened about 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs disappeared. […]
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Hampton Creek – The “Vegan” Company That’s Just Not Vegan
Corporations are, first and foremost, legal entities obligated to maximize profit and value for their shareholders. Ultimate responsibility to create a vegan world remains with each of us, as individuals. […]
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Vince the Rhino: Killed at a Zoo
Vince, a young four year old white rhinoceros, was brutally poached and killed at a zoo outside Paris earlier this year. If this could happen in the relative security of a zoo, what hope is there for the remaining free-living animals in the wild? […]
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Could you Hurt and Kill this Baby? If you consume dairy, you are.
Millions of dairy calves are killed every year in order for us to consume the lactations of their mothers. […]
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Women Not Being Allowed in Marathons Seems Absurd Today
Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967, even though women were not allowed to register and run in the marathon back then (and a race official even tried to physically stop her). […]
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Other Animals are Equally Important as April the Giraffe
1.25 million people watched a livestream of April the giraffe giving birth to her calf in a New York zoo. […]
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More Tigers in American Backyards than in the Wild
“With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger population exceeds the approximately 3,200 tigers in the wild.” This is according to the WWF. […]