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
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
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
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
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
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
“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, […]
Vegan Man hopes Florida jury will have it his way in case against Burger King
Can expect to be grilled in cross-examination MIAMI, Florida––Vegan Man on November 18, 2019 served notice on the Miami-based Burger King fast food chain in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that he hopes to meet twelve Florida men––and Florida women––in a jury box soon, with a judge presiding. Seeking class […]
Miyoko to dairy farmers: “Don’t have a cow, man!”
“Nuts to you each morning!” DALLAS, Texas; SONOMA, California––Almost simultaneously in mid-November 2019, Dean Foods declared bankruptcy, leaving 12,000 dairy farmers across the U.S. potentially up Manure Creek without a butter churn, and Miyoko’s Creamery, one of the fastest-growing makers of nut-based alternatives to cheese and butter, announced that in early 2020 it will […]
Three veg fun foods that terrify the animal-based food industry
Impossible Burgers, cell-cultured ice cream, & goldfish crackers––& goldfish crackers may scare the animal-based food industry most of all EMERYVILLE, California––Now you can order vegan Impossible Burgers to be delivered for a midnight meal, as thousands of people have already done. As of July 11, 2019, you could have real vegan ice cream for […]
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