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 […]
A personal tribute to vegan author John Robbins, by Vasu Murti
Diet for A New America author John Robbins dies at 77 from legacy of polio, ANIMALS 24-7 headlined on June 24, 2025, above an extensive obituary covering the facts of Robbins’ life and briefly reviewing his teachings. Robbins’ longtime friend Vasu Murti here offers his further and more personal perspective. The number of animals killed […]
FBI: Friend of Biohazard Investigators or of Farm Business Investment?
Wayne Pacelle sees sunny days ahead for the historically stormy relationship between animal advocacy & the FBI WASHINGTON D.C.––Night-and-day different visions of the FBI relationships with factory farming and animal advocacy emerged just a click apart on June 3, 2025 from Animal Wellness Action president Wayne Pacelle and Wired investigative journalist Del Cameron. Pacelle envisioned […]
New film “Common Enemy” fingers factory farming, if anyone sees it
Factory farming lurks almost unmentioned behind many political issues OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––The Humane League on March 7, 2024 released Common Enemy, a free-to-view 35-minute online documentary exposé of factory farming in Oklahoma, linked to every mention in this review. The timing could scarcely have been worse. Common Enemy, released a week earlier to selected […]
COP28 put plant-based diet on the menu, but did not remove meat from it
Vegan author George Monbiot sees roadblocks; Union of Concerned Scientists chief sees way forward for lessening meat consumption DUBAI, United Arab Emirates––The twenty-eighth annual Conference Of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP28 for short, did not totally cop out from confronting Big Meat Agribusiness, but many of the parties […]
COP28 conference on global warming expected to tell world to eat less meat
Recommendation to eat less meat may be the most substantive outcome of a United Nations conference on global warming since the COP conference series began DUBAI, United Arab Emirates––A global assembly of COP-rolites including an unprecedentedly large delegation representing the meat and livestock industries are gathered in Dubai for COP28, the twenty-eighth annual Conference Of […]
Why the “green” prescriptions of 1970 have expired today
Embracing Limits: A Radical and Necessary Approach to the Environmental Crisis 384 pages; $8.99 Kindle; $23.50 paperback. Earth Animal Trust P.O. Box 11240 Englewood, CO 80151 Denver vegan advocate Keith Akers, 74, “has been researching environmental issues ever since 1970, when he attended a rally on the first Earth Day,” an online biographical page mentions. Earning […]
Hurricane Ian & Pakistan “super flood” compete for aid & sympathy
Animal agriculture made Pakistan crisis worse FORT MYERS, Florida; ISLAMABAD, Pakistan––With Hurricane Ian storm water still receding in Florida and South Carolina, the human body count rising over 100, and animal casualties only just beginning to be estimated, Julien Harneis, United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan, might be said to have picked an awkward time to appeal to the […]
Giving you one more chance: USDA-APHIS says speak now or hold the pieces
Feds want your input on Animal Welfare Act enforcement & much, much more; comment period extended another 30 days WASHINGTON D.C.––”In response to requests, stakeholders will have an additional 30 days to share their thoughts on the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) strategic plan to guide the […]
H5N1 avian flu: bird culls, food prices, Ukraine war, & cockfighting converge
Waterfowl meeting mostly in the Russian Arctic infect factory farms worldwide AMES, Iowa––Just as the COVID-19 pandemic afflicting the world since January 2020 seems to be letting up, the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories are warning everyone concerned about birds, wild or domestic, to beware of the first outbreak of High […]