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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 […]

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 […]

Geoffrey Deckers & Marion Bienes brought animal rights to the Netherlands

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Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Geoffrey Deckers,  51,  co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend],   died suddenly on June 29,  2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20,  2017,  but appeared to have made a full recovery. As well as leading Een Dier Een Vriend […]

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. […]

Jill Biden upstages vegans’ attempt to upstage husband Joe

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Kept “Let Dairy Die!” signs from grabbing more than a split second of TV time LOS ANGELES––Michael Bloomberg and spokespersons for Direct Action Everywhere sounded much like each other on March 4,  2020,  congratulating themselves for fiascos that respectively knocked Bloomberg out of the U.S. presidential race and made a national heroine of Jill Biden,  […]

Miyoko’s taking the case for vegan cheese to the people as well as the court

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Will grill vegan cheese sandwiches as well as California Department of Food & Agriculture officials PETALUMA,  California––Taking the case for plant-based cheese products straight to the people,  as well as to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,  Miyoko’s Creamery on March 4,  2020 intends to begin distributing 15,000 free vegan cheddar and pepperjack […]

Why ASPCA pitch “Take a Bite Out of Farm Animal Cruelty” makes us puke 

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Ads at your local supermarket probably go farther on behalf of farmed animals by Irene Muschel I just opened my computer and found myself looking at a startling American SPCA fund-raising email that encourages people to support the breeding,  raising, and slaughter of animals destined for human consumption. The email,  captioned “Take a Bite Out […]

Meat-heavy diet must go the way of Neanderthals, German economists warn

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Bigger people will do better in a smaller world on grains & veggies GOETTINGEN, Germany––Better-fed people get bigger. This trend has been evident in paleontology since our omnivorous but mostly plant-eating Cro-Magnon ancestors circa 40,000 years ago gradually reduced our much older,  shorter,  and mostly carnivorous Neanderthal cousins to a handful of recessive genetic traits […]

Brother Wolf: “Warehousing is not working,” says director of no-kill experiment

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“Keeping aggressive animals isn’t the solution for lifesaving” ASHEVILLE,  North Carolina––“We are warehousing aggressive animals at Brother Wolf when we know this isn’t the solution for lifesaving,”  executive director Leah Craig Fieser acknowledged in “Warehousing is not working,”  a December 5,  2019 social media statement inspiring heated debate nationwide. “We inherited this way of operating,”  Fieser said,  […]