Politics
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.
PLANT CEO and UnchainedTV: A new partnership – spanning two continents – aims to bring crucial information on the plant-based lifestyle to a global audience hungry for positive change. HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, April 2nd, 2024 — As millions around the world increasingly embrace the plant-based lifestyle for health, compassion and sustainability, a new partnership – spanning two continents – aims to bring crucial information on the plant-based lifestyle to a global audience hungry for positive change.
Switch4Good is campaigning for the ADD SOY Act, a bill to bring non-dairy milk into U.S. schools, and criticizes members of Congress who ignore the widespread lactose intolerance among school children. Los Angeles, December 14th, 2023 — Switch4Good, a nonprofit that seeks to alert consumers to the dangers of dairy, expressed disappointment that the House Rules Committee denied a vote on an amendment filed to the Whole Milk Bill this week to address the massive lactose intolerance among school children.
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.
Youth Steering Committee members urge government officials to promote plant-based foods and stop pushing pro meat and dairy policies that threaten their futures by worsening the climate and human health Los Angeles, September 14, 2023 — For a second year, a group of students belonging to the Youth Steering Committee (YSC) have traveled to Washington DC to talk to Senators, House Representatives, and other government officials urging them to stop subsidizing animal agriculture and start allowing more plant-based foods and dairy-free milk into America’s school systems.
The animal protection group Mercy for Animals has released an undercover investigation into the suffering of pigs in a Nebraska farm while issuing a call to action to oppose the EATS Act Los Angeles, August 18, 2023 — The California-based animal protection organization Mercy for Animals (MfA) just released a new exposé of yet another pig farm, this one in Nebraska.
New research from Faunalytics could help turn people vegan by looking at how different U.S. groups feel about taking action to help animals Los Angeles, June 23, 2023 — The nonprofit research organization Faunalytics has surveyed thousands of Americans about how likely they would be to try several pro-animal actions, such as giving up meat, becoming vegan, or buying cruelty-free products.
Edinburgh has become the first capital city in Europe to endorse the Plant Based Treaty to address the impact of animal agriculture on the global climate crisis Edinburgh, January 18, 2023 — The City of Edinburgh Council, Scotland, UK, has endorsed the Plant Based Treaty, becoming the first major European city to join this campaign to tackle the meat industry’s massive role in the climate emergency.
The Plant Based Treaty urges cities and institutions to take real action to address meat’s role in the climate crisis. Los Angeles, January 16, 2023 — To spur institutions into urgent action, the Canadian-based vegan campaigning group Plant Based Treaty is starting 2023 with a new focus.
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.