How to Live a Healthy and Happy Vegan Lifestyle

   Co-founder of Veganuary and VFC Matthew Glover recently met with vegan advocate & YouTuber Plant Based Leon to see what living conditions are like for 95% of chickens raised for meat in the UK, and 98% in the US.   With 25,000 chickens crammed under one roof - factory farms like this are a breeding ground for disease. Grown at four times their natural rate, each chicken struggles to support their own weight and often suffers from broken bones.

  'So many bodies are squashed together in one space, with no crates, no boxes, no shelter, no chance of a momentary reprieve from the utter havoc'. Acclaimed actor and vegan advocate Evanna Lynch has gone undercover in a factory farm for chickens. The Harry Potter star visited a standard farm in the UK alongside Matthew Glover – Founder of Veganuary and VFC . Lynch penned a blog post about the experience, which she described as ‘overwhelming’ and ‘chaotic’. “We stop and pause once through the door to look out at 25,000 chickens crammed together under one roof,” she writes. Continue...

Please help them... What you can do to stop animal abuse and factory farming As a consumer, you have an arsenal of tools that you can use to help stop factory farming. We will name a few. Stop factory farming by what you eat Maybe the most important means at your disposal: stop giving money to factory farming by no longer buying meat and other products from factory farming. 1 Stop factory farming by what you eat 2 Don't buy from companies that don't care about animal rights 3 Vote out factory farming 4 Protest against permits for factory farms 5 Write to newspapers and magazines 6 Support organizations against factory farming 7 Make clear how you feel about animal rights

The non-profit vegan rescue center beat 13,500 entries in securing a nomination this year Credit:  Instagram 'A vote for Farm Sanctuary is a vote for the billions of farm animals caught in the animal agriculture system' Farm Sanctuary , a vegan rescue center seeking to end animal agriculture, has been nominated for an award at the acclaimed Annual Webby Awards. The sanctuary is nominated in the highly competitive category ‘Social: Animals’ – and it’s up against a host of social media stars. Moreover, it’s the only non-dog ’cause-led’ nominee in the category. The New York Times described the annual awards ‘the internet’s highest honor’. Activist and podcaster Jameela Jamil is presenting them this year. Moreover, the social category celebrates creativity across social media accounts that celebrate animals. Continue...  

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A coalition of MPs is calling on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to outlaw intensive farming. An Early Day Motion has been signed by 16 MPs from Labour, the SNP, the Green Party, and the Liberal Democrats. It urges Johnson to ‘listen to the public’ and permanently ban factory farming in the UK. The motion is supported by vegan charity Viva! It recognizes that ‘intensive farming methods inflict terrible suffering on some one billion land animals in the UK each year’. It also says factory farms provide a ‘fertile environment for the amplification and transmission of viruses and bacteria between different species and humans’. As well as drawing attention to the ‘rise and spread of antimicrobial resistance’ caused by livestock farming.  Continue...

     A meat eater and vegan activist bear witness at a pig slaughterhouse with The LA chapter of Animal Save Movement.

  Europe and North America will hit ‘peak meat’ by the year 2025 – meaning the consumption of animal protein will begin to decline. A new report predicts the market for alternative proteins will grow to 97 million metric tons by 2035 – making up 11 percent of the overall protein market Food for Thought: The Protein Transformation says faster technological innovation and full regulatory support could boost growth to 22 percent of the market by 2035. At the latter’s rate, Europe and North America would reach ‘peak meat’ by 2025. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Blue Horizon Corporation (BHC) conducted the research. BCG managing director Benjamin Morac said: “Alternative proteins could soon match animal protein in taste, texture, and price. Continue

  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

Oluwo Fish Market teems with life. It is a wet market just outside Lagos, Nigeria's largest city. ITV News secretly filmed there - a place awash with animals - alive and dead. Scientists believe wet markets are a breeding ground for disease, a high risk environment, from where the next pandemic could emerge. The very concept of a “wet market” means the presence of blood and bodily fluids. It is a marketplace selling fresh meat and fish, as opposed to a “dry market” that sells durable products. Not all wet markets sell live animals. Not all of them trade in wild and exotic animals, but some do, and some of those have been linked to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, where an infection crosses the species barrier from animal to human. Exhibit A. Covid-19. The pandemic that allegedly originated at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China .  Continue

The U.S. has the world’s second-highest consumption of beef and buffalo after Argentina.   Burgers, bacon, steaks, and other meat products have come under scrutiny in recent years due to their impact on health, sustainability, and social justice issues.  The number of companies working on meat alternatives in the U.S. is growing. Half of U.S. consumers under the age of 50 have already tried a plant-based meat product. Yet meat consumption in the U.S. is on the rise. As of 2017, America had the second-highest meat consumption in the world, surpassed only by Hong Kong.  How Much Meat Is Consumed in the U.S.? Americans consume around 274 pounds of meat per year on average, not accounting for seafood and fish, or individual food waste. Continue