Every year on Valentine’s Day, we’re inclined to buy candies, cards, flowers, and stuffed animals to show our loved ones, friends, and family just how much we care. Why not, however, go beyond these small displays of affection and make choices that truly have a positive impact for animals, for your health, and the environment? It’s as simple as choosing to leave animals off our plate this Valentine’s Day.
Mother’s Day is just two days away—this holiday is a wonderful reminder to celebrate our own moms, but it’s also a nice time to reflect on the special bond between the mothers and children of all species.
For over 40 years, Earth Day—celebrated on April 22—has been inspiring people everywhere to take steps to help the environment. Did you know that perhaps the single most important action each of us can take to protect the planet is simply to choose meat-free foods?
Animal agriculture is considered one of the leading causes of pollution and resource depletion today. According to the United Nations, raising chickens, turkeys, pigs, cows and other animals for food contributes nearly one-fifth (18%) of all global human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.
When you think of where the fish on your plate comes from, you’re probably conjuring images of the great wide ocean where the animals live free until a few small boats come along and scoop them up. In reality, huge nets are often cast into the open waters that catch everything and anything that get in their way, including millions of “nontarget” animals. And even this reality, which is already questionable because of the environmental havoc it wreaks on the entire marine ecosystem, is now changing.
While Al Gore’s highly-acclaimed and award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” may have conveniently neglected to highlight the harmful impact of our dietary choices, in a recent interview, the former vice-president suggests curbing our meat consumption to help curb global warming.
Producing a veggie burger requires 93% fewer greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than it does to produce a hamburger.
If everyone in the U.S. went meatless one day a week, it would be equivalent to taking 7.6 million cars off the road.
In the last year, coverage of vegan eating and its many benefits has abounded in the mainstream media — from