It’s not just the temperatures that are hot in DC. Our outreach team has been sizzling! In the last few weeks, COK’s dedicated volunteers and interns hit the streets giving away over 800 food samples and over 3,000 pieces of pro-veg
Celebrating Successes for Animals at COK’s “Summer Soiree by the Sea”
On July 21, our Los Angeles office hosted the Summer Soiree by the Sea in Hermosa Beach to celebrate our many successes so far this year, and to raise funds to support our groundbreaking corporate campaigns and other efforts creating meaningful and lasting changes for farmed animals.
UCLA Offering New Farmed Animal Law Course Taught by COK’s General Counsel
This fall semester, I’ll be teaching Animals in Agriculture and the Law, (open to advanced students, 2Ls and 3Ls) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – School of Law.
Beef Industry Upset Over USDA’s Support for Meatless Monday
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an agency notorious for its unabashed promotion of animal agribusiness and animal-based foods. As noted by the Associated Press: “The USDA often promotes the beef industry by encouraging Americans to eat meat.”
This week, however, the USDA got caught in the line of fire from, of all groups, the National Cattleman’s Beef Association (NCBA). Why? Because it (the USDA) touted the benefits of meat-free foods.
Check out COK’s Updated DC Dining Guide for DC!
While it’s political animals that DC is known for, it’s the animals being left off of Washingtonian’s plates that prompted Living Social to rank the nation’s capital as the “Top Vegetarian US City.” The survey, conducted last year, reveals that DC diners have the highest preference for vegetarian and vegan fare in the US—so it’s no wonder that more restaurants are adding delicious meat-free meals to their menus.
Just how many restaurants?
The Power of Compassion: COK’s 2012 Mid-Year Updates!
We’re halfway through 2012 and it’s been a
tremendous year so far for COK – and for animals. Together, with your generous support, we’re
making incredible strides, and we’re thrilled to share some highlights from our
work during the past six months:
Think Smoking is Unhealthy? Eating Eggs Might Be Worse
In a new video, posted on one of our favorite websites, NutritionFacts.org, Dr. Michael Greger discusses the details of a competing risk analysis from a Harvard Nurse’s Health Study on women’s health.
Among other important topics, the review compares the dangers of smoking to the dangers of eating animal products. The results?
According to the study, the number one single cause
of death was heart disease, and dietary cholesterol consumption was a
significant risk factor for death. The second leading cause of death was from smoking-related cancer.
Antibiotics in Chicken Linked to Urinary Tract Infections in Women
Up to 8 million
US women—that’s one out of nine—suffer from painful and persistent urinary
tract infections (UTI) each year, and now we may know why: It’s likely that many of them have become infected
with a newly antibiotic-resistant strain of E. coli, believed by researchers to
spread through poultry
raised with the routine use of antibiotics. These findings so closely
correlate to the rise of UTI’s in the past decade, that the Infectious
Diseases Society of America has had to revise its recommendations on which drugs to
prescribe.