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.
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 (IAA). The IAA is a bill created, in part, as a response to what critics have described as the horrific treatment of pigs, chickens, turkeys and cows during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the early months of the pandemic, Covid-ridden slaughterhouses were temporarily shut down, and the USDA provided aid to livestock companies in the mass killing (referred to as “depopulation”) of millions of animals, meaning that taxpayer dollars supported these acts.
LA’s first vegan food bank: helping underserved Angelinos with healthy and compassionate food since launching in May 2022. Los Angeles, CA, November 22, 2022, 3:30pm — The new L.A. Vegan Food Bank is feeding people and rocking out the revolutionary concept of food equality.
Los Angeles City Council unanimously endorses the Plant Based Treaty to urgently address the climate emergency Los Angeles, October 21st, 2022, 12:30 pm – It’s a moment that may well go down in the history of humanity’s battle against climate change.
The Research Modernization Deal: a strategic plan to replace animal experiments in scientific research with modern methods. We’ve heard it a million times. When animal rights activists protest against animal experiments, the knee-jerk reply of many scientists and politicians is that society needs vivisection in order to cure human diseases.
Judie Mancuso is Bringing Vegan Meals to California Schools If something happens in California, you know it’s going to have an impact around the country, right? If we want to bring vegan meals to schools across the US, best to do it first in California.
14 Members of Parliament Support the Plant Based Treaty In her inimitable way, climate activist Greta Thunberg recently dismissed the world’s business-as-usual politicians with a perfectly delivered line. “Blah, blah, blah,” is how the acclaimed vegan teenager summarized the half-measures of Presidents and Prime Ministers, measures that are getting us nowhere but hotter, drier, and more desperate.
Is This the Beginning of The End of Vivisection? In the last few weeks, the movement against animal experimentation (vivisection) scored two important victories. These could cause a chain reaction which could lead to the end of vivisection everywhere in the world.
The Netherlands Considers Cutting Livestock by Almost a Third This is huge! Civil servants at the Dutch Finance and Agriculture Ministry are proposing to reduce livestock numbers by almost a third. Yes, you read it right! If it happens, this may be the first country to cut livestock numbers to solve an environmental crisis.
We All Need to Transition to Plant-based Agriculture Paul Simon’s rock classic, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, lists the many ways to escape a bad relationship. Now, vegan activist Rebecca Knowles gives us 100 ways ranchers and farmers can escape from animal agriculture.