Environment
Los Angeles is set to make history as the first-ever LA Climate Week kicks off, uniting thousands in a movement that aims to address the climate crisis, while including plant-powered solutions Los Angeles, September 6th, 2024 —LA Climate Week, running from September 8th to September 15th, is a groundbreaking event featuring more than 100 organizations and more than 100 events across 20 venues in Los Angeles.
The Farm Bill Battle in Congress: Activists face arrest as they expose the environmental, animal welfare and economic costs of subsidizing animal agriculture. Los Angeles, August 22, 2024 — As the United States Congress debates the renewal of the Farm Bill, a significant battle is unfolding over the future of food and agriculture in America.
A deep dive into the controversial plan to build America’s largest monkey-breeding facility in Georgia and the community’s determination to stop it Los Angeles, August 8th, 2024 — A group of outraged Georgia residents have united to fight a plan to put what would be America’s largest laboratory monkey-breeding facility in the small town of Bainbridge, Georgia, which is 233 miles south of Atlanta and just 40 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida.
Vegucated is a laugh-out-loud look at 3 “regular” New Yorkers trying a vegan diet while learning all about why it’s best for them, the animals and the planet. April 16, 2024, Fort Wayne, Indiana — A lot can change in six weeks.
Celebrities, including Moby, have endorsed The Plant Based Treaty’s Safe and Just Report launched at a press conference in Dubai during COP28’s Food, Agriculture and Water Day. December 11th, 2023 — Dubai, UAE — The Plant Based Treaty’s Safe and Just Report represents an urgent demand that the world’s governments change their current approach to food systems by moving past what organizers describe as “carbon tunnel vision” which ignores animal agriculture’s substantial role in climate change.
A new study by Oxford University shows that eating a vegan diet is far less harmful to the environment than all other available diets London, UK, August 31, 2023 — A new study by Oxford University has shown that eating a vegan diet is the least harmful to the environment compared with all the other available diets, including vegetarian and pescatarian diets.
Plant Based Treaty’s campaigners have set up a free vegan food truck in front of the Bonn Climate Conference in Germany to demand 100% plant-based catering Bonn, Germany, June 11, 2023 — For the second year running, climate activists have parked a food truck at the entrance of the World Conference Center in Germany planning to distribute 2000 free vegan hot dogs to show Bonn Climate Conference delegates that a transition to a plant-based food system is essential to addressing rising food-related greenhouse gas emissions.
The new book Humane Hoax exposes the myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, Ethical Eggs, and other forms of modern propaganda from the animal agriculture industry. Los Angeles, May 7th, 2023 — Lantern Publishing & Media has a new book titled “The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs.” It features a range of thought-provoking essays from 18 experts who lay out every aspect of animal agriculture’s modern propaganda machine.