Another sporting event, another chance for vegan outreach by Animal Outlook supporters⌠As thousands of soccer fans poured into Atlanta for the FIFA World Cup, Chapter Leader Evan Thomas and a team of volunteers seized the moment. Positioned along busy walkways, they handed Animal Outlookâs vegan leaflets directly to tourists and fansâmany even reaching out to take one as they …
đĽŠđą Vegan jerky at a Baconfest? You bet. Last weekend, our volunteer Kristine hit the streets of Kelseyville, CA for Baconfest. Over the course of a few hours, she handed out roughly 200 samples of plant-based jerky to curious festival-goers, and the feedback said it all. One man tried a piece and told Kristine: “If you wouldn’t have told us, …
Monday night, the Pico Rivera Planning Commission voted unanimously to permanently revoke planning permission for the Manning Beef slaughterhouseâensuring that LA County’s last cow slaughterhouse will never reopen. This is a monumental win for animals, for the community, and for everyone who refuses to accept cruelty as business as usual. More than a dozen Animal Outlook supporters gathered outside City …
100-Year Road to Victory: How Manning Beef Slaughterhouse Was Permanently Closed 1920s: Manning Beef Founded Manning Beef was established in the 1920s as a family-owned meat processing business in Southern California, becoming part of the region’s growing industrial animal agriculture infrastructure during the early 20th century. 2017: First Amendment Victory for Protesters Los Angeles Animal Save activists who had been …
Last week, our Farm Transitions team traveled to Southeast Alabama, the birthplace of our program, and it felt like coming home. We had the privilege of visiting the new HudsonAlpha Wiregrass Innovation Center, where we introduced Maeve, our Bill Ferguson Legacy Fellow, to the team that helped make our first farm transition possible. Two of HudsonAlpha’s summer interns joined us …
Animal Outlook welcomes today’s Government Accountability Office report recommending that Congress modernize the Twenty-Eight Hour Law to better protect livestock during transport. đ The report validates what our organization has documented for decades: the federal government has failed to meaningfully enforce basic protections for animals enduring grueling cross-country journeys. For years, our investigators have followed livestock trucks traveling well beyond …
Cultivated meat is no longer a distant idea. It’s already approved for sale in the United States, with companies working to scale production. For those interested in reducing animal suffering, it holds enormous promise. But technological progress alone isn’t enough. A key question remains: will consumers actually accept it? This is where framing becomes critical. Framing refers to how information …
This weekend at AVA International reminded us why we do this work. Our Deputy Director of Investigations, Erin W., read a letter from one of our former undercover investigators. He wrote about leaving a little piece of himself in every facility he investigates. Angela de Freitas led a roundtable on farm transitionsâexploring how we can help farmers move away from …
One year ago this month, Arizona experienced what would become the largest animal disease outbreak in the state’s history. Between May 16 and June 7, 2025, 6.3 million birds were killed across seven locations centering on Hickman’s Family Farms following the discovery of highly pathogenic avian influenza. As we mark this grim anniversary, new documents slowly being released through Animal …