Initiatives

Help put an end to large-scale animal factories! Sonoma County, California, could lead the nation by becoming the first U.S. county to ban Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) through a popular vote. More than 37,185 residents have already backed this initiative, showing their support for sustainable and humane farming practices. Learn from activists like Samantha Faye and Sarah Van Mantgem about the importance of this vote and how you can make a difference. Join the movement with the Coalition to End Factory Farming and be part of this historic effort to transform agriculture. Your voice can help shape a kinder, cleaner future. Read on to discover how your vote can change the landscape of American farming.

Indianapolis, Indiana, December 28 11:30pm    New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, the first vegan member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently announced a new piece of farmed animal welfare legislation, the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act [...]

LA's first vegan food bank: helping underserved Angelinos with healthy and compassionate food since launching in May 2022. Gwenna Hunter Los Angeles, CA, November 22, 2022, 3:30pm —   The new L.A. Vegan Food [...]

Los Angeles City Council unanimously endorses the Plant Based Treaty to urgently address the climate emergency Councilmember Paul Koretz ©Plant Based Treaty Los Angeles, October 21st, 2022, 12:30 pm – It's a moment [...]

The Research Modernization Deal: a strategic plan to replace animal experiments in scientific research with modern methods. The Research Modernization Deal (c)PETA We've heard it a million times. When animal rights activists protest [...]

Judie Mancuso is Bringing Vegan Meals to California Schools Judie Mancuso is Bringing Vegan Meals to California Schools (c) SCIL If something happens in California, you know it’s going to have an impact [...]

14 Members of Parliament Support the Plant Based Treaty Climate protestors in San Francisco, USA. Photo by Li-An Lim on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/ycW4YxhrWHM In her inimitable way, climate activist Greta Thunberg recently dismissed the [...]

Is This the Beginning of The End of Vivisection? Dogs tortured by the US National Institute of Health @WCW In the last few weeks, the movement against animal experimentation (vivisection) scored two important [...]

The Netherlands Considers Cutting Livestock by Almost a Third Pigs are part o the Dutch government's plan to cut livestock numbers @Jordi Casamitjana This is huge! Civil servants at the Dutch Finance and [...]

We All Need to Transition to Plant-based Agriculture Rebecca Knowles on a Scottish field Paul Simon's rock classic, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, lists the many ways to escape a bad relationship. [...]