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Consumers Asked, Taco Bell Responds By Rolling Out a Vegan Options Guide

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Taco Bell Introduces New Vegan Guide to Menu Successful campaigns by Animal Outlook have brought meatless and vegan meals to the fast-food mainstream, from Subway (the world’s largest restaurant chain), to Dunkin’, Pita Pit and more. As consumer demand for plant-based options grows, other food industry giants are taking note and making changes. Taco Bell recently released a hugely popular guide …

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Leilani Münter Speaks Out Against High-Speed Slaughter of Pigs

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Leilani Münter is a professional race car driver and environmental activist who drives a 100% solar-powered Tesla. Sports Illustrated named her one of the top ten female race car drivers in the world. Now, Leilani joins Animal Outlook as a driving force in our campaign to oppose the dangerous and inhumane high-speed slaughter of pigs under a controversial U.S. Department of Agriculture …

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Meatless Monday: World Health Summit Goes Meat-Free

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Meatless Monday menu is highlight of World Health Summit  Awareness of the dire health risks presented by a diet laden with animal products is ever-growing, and so too is awareness of the many health benefits of a plant-based diet. Research shows that processed meats can cause cancer and that a meat-heavy diet is as bad as smoking. On the flip side, from …

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Vegan Eating In The Spotlight

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Vegan eating is more popular than ever. Here, fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue highlights a vegan pop tart recipe from Rawcells, calling it a “healthier version” of the well-known toaster treat, and adds that one look at the Rawcells Instagram page might convince you to go vegan. Other publications are putting plants on their pages (digital or otherwise) too. SELF just posted four …

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“BONING” VICTORY: Major Poultry Producer Ends Cruel Practice

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“Boning” Severely Restricts Male Birds’ Ability to Eat Wayne Farms, the nation’s sixth largest poultry producer, has stated that it will end the brutal practice of stabbing a dull plastic “bone” through the sensitive nostrils of young male breeder chickens. The painful practice, commonly known as “boning,” severely restricts male birds’ ability to eat in order to keep them from …

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Lawsuit Claims Chicken Industry Killed Birds to Illegally Inflate Prices

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Chickens are forced to endure some of the worst abuses in animal agribusiness, and Animal Outlook works to bring their suffering, and that of all farmed animals, to light. Our investigators have revealed birds buried alive in pits and newly hatched chicks ground alive or left to slowly die. Despite desperate efforts by the industry to hide such abuse, we continue …

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Class Action Settlement: U.S. Dairy Industry to Pay $52 Million in Price-Fixing Conspiracy

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Dairy Industry Pays $52M in Price-Fixing Conspiracy Settlement As Animal Outlook has exposed time and again, the dairy industry consistently shows utter disregard for animal welfare — from taking newborn calves away from their mothers to shipping “spent” cows off to slaughter. That’s hardly where the unethical behavior ends. According to a class action lawsuit filed in 2011, the industry’s …

Justice for All: Celebrating Cheryl Leahy’s 10 Years at COK!

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A note from Compassion Over Killing’s Board of Directors:  We are so proud to celebrate Cheryl Leahy’s 10-year anniversary at COK! As General Counsel, Cheryl proves that no sector of animal agriculture is beyond the reach of COK’s challenge. She has led investigative efforts against the egg, dairy, chicken, pork, beef, turkey, and foie gras industries, and spearheaded groundbreaking legal actions against …

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Dunkin’ & Starbucks Keep Expanding Vegan Menus

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Thanks to campaigns led by Animal Outlook and requests from compassionate consumers, in 2014 Dunkin’, the world’s largest coffee and baked goods chain, added almond milk to about 75 percent of its locations — and Starbucks, one of the first national coffee chains to offer soy milk, has told us that it’s exploring vegan food options. Now cows and consumers …