Berry raised animals for slaughter. Steinem believed “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.” Neither Wendell Berry and Gloria Steinem, each deceased at 92, on August 31, 2026 and September 2, 2026, respectively, were known primarily––or perhaps even at all––for their considerable influence on the late 20th century rise […]
Rollins & Kennedy “beef up” USDA school meal program cut to the bone
Nothing in the Rollins/Kennedy announcement supports plant-based diet, notes Harvard critic WASHINGTON, D.C.––Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services, on August 24, 2026 announced what they claimed were, “Sweeping new efforts to strengthen school meals by connecting more American farmers with local schools, […]
Walmart, Target & plant-based protein access in rural Middle America
Is variety the spice of life, or the death of the plant-based protein sector? by Brooke Stein The impact of investor-driven invention versus mission-driven invention may well be keeping animals on the plate while at least a billion people remain hungry. The movement to support a global shift towards plant-based protein may be missing big […]
Alan Cooper & John Pippin, M.D., represented the range of animal advocacy
Both Alan Cooper & John Pippin, M.D. were felled by long struggles with debilitating illness It would be difficult to imagine two animal advocates with less in common than Alan Cooper and John Pippin, M.D., except that both were veterans of more than 20 years in animal advocacy on a variety of fronts, and died […]
Naked Ape author Desmond Morris, 98, helped to shape AR movement
Desmond Morris’ ideas helped to form “animal rights” arguments, but Morris stood apart from the cause LONDON, U.K.––Naked Ape author Desmond Morris, 98, an influence upon and fellow traveler with the animal rights movement for much of his life, but at odds with vegans and vegetarians, died on April 19, 2026, in Naas, County Kildare, […]
Ridglan Farms charges filed, plus guest column by Jon Hochschartner
Editors’ preface: Three days after an unsuccessful April 18, 2026 attempt by about 200 animal advocates to storm the Ridglan Farms beagle-breeding facility in Blue Mound, Wisconsin, the tear gas and pepper spray have drifted from the scene on the wind. Met with force unprecedented in more than a half century of frequent animal rights […]
Are protein-binging high meat diets eating vegan restaurants’ lunch?
Fried chicken, pizza, & burger joints, and even steakhouses are also experiencing a shakeout SEATTLE, NEW YORK CITY, ATLANTA, OAKLAND–– “Seattle’s Wayward Cafe was always vegan, then bought out by a new family, and has now announced it is going carnist!” nationally recognized animal rights lawyer Adam Karp lamented to Facebook on March 18, 2026. […]
Warren Cox: Dean of U.S. humane work
“Everything” about Warren Cox A few weeks ago Warren Cox called, while my wife Beth and I were putting up cat climbing ramps and resting boards in our new back porch “catio,” and asked if we could put together “everything” we had written about him into a little booklet, so that he could show his […]
Reports from Iran: perhaps world’s most officially animal-unfriendly nation
The Iranian people have never been hostile toward animals, but the Islamist government & the Revolutionary Guard are another matter TEHRAN, Iran; JERUSALEM, Israel––Animal advocates and rescuers on opposite sides of shooting between Iran and Israel report similar responses among the dogs and cats in their care since U.S. and Israeli forces jointly bombed targets […]
Syed Abulbar Rizvi, 92, linked Islamic & western animal advocacy
Syed Rizvi, a founding member of PETA, also founded Engineers & Scientists for Animal Rights Syed Abulbar Rizvi, 92, founder of Engineers & Scientists for Animal Rights, a longtime leading link between the animal advocacy communities of Pakistan and those of the west, and a leading voice for animals within Islam, died in his sleep […]