How to Live a Healthy and Happy Vegan Lifestyle

    There's so much more I could, and should, have said, but after the chaos in Georgia, USA and the impending anti-protest laws in the UK, I tried to (potentially unsuccessfully) piece together some thoughts on how it relates to the increasing desire for vegans to build walls instead of breaking them down, and how ultimately it keeps us from liberation. Apologies to the great movement news about owls and the fight against fur I posted at the end, but I thought you all were worth mentioning regardless.  #TheCrankyVegan  

  Philip Schofield was completely gobsmacked and went to pieces live on TV when a horse was milked live on his show, despite the fact that he's been drinking the breast secretions of very similar animals for years and years with zero hesitation...

  'Everyone' wants to end “chick culling.” So what’s the holdup? Every year, up to 7 billion day-old male chicks are tossed into shredding machines, gassed, or suffocated in plastic bags—a process known as “chick culling.” This grim ritual is underpinned by both biology and economics: Male chicks don’t lay eggs, and they fatten up too slowly to be sold as meat. Across the globe, culling has become the default strategy for the egg industry to eliminate unwanted hatchlings. “It is horrible. You see these puffy, newly hatched chicks on a conveyor belt,” headed toward a large blade that slices them “into a gazillion pieces,” says Leah Garcés, president of Mercy for Animals, an animal-rights advocacy group in the United States. In recent years, local and international animal-rights groups, particularly in France, Germany, and the U.S., have been ramping up pressure on governments and the egg industry to commit to ending the practice—particularly given technological innovations that

  New Zealand raises over 120 million chickens for meat every year who have been selectively bred for rapid growth.  They’re still babies when they’re slaughtered at six weeks of age. The combination of rapid growth and dirty, overcrowded farming conditions puts these birds at risk of suffering from debilitating and painful health problems. SAFE Campaigns Manager Jessica Chambers said the Government must intervene. "This is as bad as it gets for farmed animals," said Chambers. "Chicken farming practices are inconsistent with the Animal Welfare Act and the Government has to do something about it. It’s simply wrong to put these animals at such high risk of pain and suffering during their short lives." In 2011, the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) raised concerns that chicken farming practices risked creating birds that spent part of their short lives in pain. A report published last week by the New Zealand Animal Law Association echoed these conce

  USDA inspection reports said animals overheated in cages and others died after botched surgeries. The University of Utah is under fire from an animal rights group over United States Department of Agriculture inspection reports that say laboratory monkeys died of “overheating and distress” in their cages and after surgical procedures. Michael Budkie, the head of Ohio-based animal welfare nonprofit Stop Animal Exploitation Now, which advocates against animal experiments, called inspection reports issued to the University of Utah disturbing. He said the SAEN found out about the report because the group routinely files records requests with different government agencies to obtain documents about animal testing facilities. Continue