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Although we don’t need to eat one ounce of animal foods, as a society, we nevertheless consume massive amounts of animal foods every day. […]

Today is Mother’s Day. But as we celebrate this Sunday, and on all other days, the animals we breed and exploit for food are living through an unrelenting waking nightmare. […]

Because it’s called “leather” we sometimes forget that our belts, shoes, furniture, clothing and car linings were literally the skin of an individual who desperately wanted not to be killed and needed their skin to live, just like we all do. […]

Horse racing sounds harmless enough to many, but, of course, using animals for entertainment (or for any other purpose) is never really “harmless”. Injuries are abound, often fatal to the animals, in both the races and in training. […]

The late widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King was an indispensable and tireless leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She also became vegan at the urging of her son, Dexter Scott King, believing it was the logical extension of Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolence and justice. […]

We are one of the few species that intentionally causes systemic violence to members of our own species, and to also take “pleasure” in unnecessarily killing other animals too. But is there any important difference between hunting versus just eating animal foods? […]

Terrified and hopeless, this bull has been repeatedly wounded. Although less obvious, eating animal foods involves equally needless cruelty imposed on innocent animals. Yet it’s something we used to support three times a day, with every meal. […]

The 2018 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo officially started today. The continued popularity of this event makes us wonder when, as a society, we will start to demonstrate basic decency to stop treating animals as “objects” for our most trivial purposes. […]