An active and inspiring leader, Cory Booker is at the forefront of the resistance against the new administration’s illegal and immoral activities. He defends Planned Parenthood and African-American rights and was on the ground fighting for detained Muslims at JFK. Booker went vegan in 2014, telling the Philly Inquirer: While some people might think trying to be vegan would…
Category: Vegan Politics
Powerful TED Talk About Carnism and Veganism
I just watched this beautiful, inspiring video today. And then I sat my husband down and we watched it again. Then we had a lengthy discussion about it, and how grateful we are to both be Veg, (he’s mostly plant-based but not 100% yet). This TED talk is a MUST SEE!!!!! Whatever your diet, do…
Carl Sagan and Dr. Ann Druyan
“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting…
Petition Against Animal Trapping
I would attach pictures but they’re too horrible to look at. Animals are so innocent, and life is hard enough out there. Leave them be. Sign and share these 4 petitions against animal trapping, which causes pain, suffering and death: 1. http://www.change.org/petitions/ask-state-to-prohibit-all-body-gripping-traps-due-to-pain-and-suffering 2. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/384/149/891/ban-steel-jaw-traps 3. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/TrapFreeNM 4. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/4/Help-End-Cruel-Trapping-in-Wisconsin
Cali – Please Help IDA Fight The Ag Gag Bill!
VEGANS IN CALIFORNIA URGENT! We must stop ag-gag bill AB343 which would make illegal the reporting of any criminal violence to animals within California slaughterhouses. To stop it from reaching the floor of the state senate please email the following California Assembly Members tonight or first thing in the morning. They vote tomorrow! Just write…
Alice Walker
“The animals of this world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” — Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, in a forward to The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery, 1988
Recipes For Compassion 