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Animal Agriculture is Immoral: vegan activists respond to COVID-19

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Anthology edited by Sailesh Rao, Ph.D. 156 pages,  paperback.  $9.99 from Amazon.com. Reviewed by Richard Schwartz             Animal Agriculture Is Immoral is an anthology of scholarly,  insightful, thought-provoking essays from environmental, social, religious, and spiritual perspectives by leading vegan activists,  assembled in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic,  about the very negative effects of animal-based […]

Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky

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Eventually live turkeys joined the feast.  But not at first. Chloe Sorvino,  food and drink editor for the business magazine Forbes,  marked Thanksgiving 2020 by looking back 40 years to the invention of Tofurky in 1980,  by then-nature educator Seth Tibbott. Described as a “turkey alternative,”  blending tofu and wheat with a wild rice and […]

Philadelphia apologizes for killing African-American animal advocates

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What if the MOVE cofounders had attended Cambridge,  or the Best Friends Animal Society cofounders had come from inner Philadelphia? PHILADELPHIA,  Pennsylvania;  KANAB,  Utah––The Philadelphia City Council on November 12,  2020 formally apologized for the May 13,  1985 bombing of a row house compound that killed 11 members of MOVE,  an inner city cult whose […]

Animal advocates have races to watch in NYC, Denver, & Berkeley, too

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Voters for Animal rights bids for New York statewide breakout, Denver weighs repealing pit bull ban,  & Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung runs for Berkeley mayor             BERKELEY,  DENVER,  NEW YORK CITY––While the races for the U.S. Presidency,  control of the Senate and House of Representatives grip the nation on Election Day 2020,  animal […]

Horsemeat, dog meat, & how “angel” Marc Ching fell from grace

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Donors ignored years of warnings about convict turned “rescue” celebrity LOS ANGELES––Marc Ching,  who in November 2018 offered to sell the city of Los Angeles vegan food for impounded dogs at a substantial discount,  is reportedly to be arraigned in December 2020 on one misdemeanor count each of practicing veterinary medicine without a license,  false advertising,  […]

A challenge to Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, & “A chicken in every pot”

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70 Members of Congress & United Poultry Concerns ask VP candidates to address global warming & meat             SALT LAKE CITY, Utah––Will the October 7,  2020 debate between Republican vice president Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential challenger Kamala Harris bring the first direct challenge in 92 years to the political promise of putting a […]

Pig transport truck kills animal advocate Regan Russell outside slaughterhouse

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Accident reprises 1995 death of British protester Jill Phipps             BURLINGTON, Ontario––Regan Russell, 65,  of Hamilton,  Ontario,  was on June 19,  2020 crushed to death by an 18-wheel livestock transport truck delivering pigs to slaughter at Fearman’s Pork Inc.,  the largest and oldest slaughterhouse in Ontario. A local landmark since 1852,  and the scene of […]

Slaughter workers, animals, & advocates: can there be justice for all?

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Not all social justice interests are compatible by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns “It really does something to your mind when you stand there in all that blood, killing so many times, over and over again.” – Virgil Butler, former Tyson chicken slaughterhouse employee  If I see or hear the word “meatpacking” one […]

Vigil for vegetarian Elijah McClain, allegedly killed by police in Aurora, Colorado

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Forced injection of ketamine may have stopped heart AURORA, Colorado––Mourners and protesters,  including world-class violinists Ashanti Floyd and Lee England Jr.,  who flew in from New York City and Atlanta for the occasion,  on June 27,  2020 played a variety of bowed instruments at City Center Park in Aurora,  Colorado,  in memory of Elijah McClain,  […]

COVID-19: Trump order reopening slaughterhouses was not about food

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But preserving profits, “red state” votes,  and keeping workers on the job despite risk were of paramount concern             SIOUX CITY, Iowa––Risk of a U.S. food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with the April 28,  2020 decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep slaughterhouses running. […]