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Inspiring Video Wins Tarshis Foundation Award

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With an empowering message that we all can choose kindness and inspire change, Animal Outlook’s moving new video, “Whose Side are You On?,” has won a Tarshis Award, to be presented at this year’s Animal Film Festival. The video, created by Animal Outlook‘s Jonathan Rosenberry, features vegan activist Lesley Parker Rollins and her family, including daughter Maya. Young Maya meets …

Big News in the Big Top: Ringling Bros. Shuts Down

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In a history-making and headline-grabbing announcement, Ringling Bros. has told the world that it’s closing down (officially this May) after more than 140 years in business. Why? Reasons cited by the Big Top giant include declining attendance over the years as well the public’s changing view on the use — and abuse — of animals in entertainment.   Indeed, this …

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Chipotle Introduces Vegan Options Guide

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Chipotle has a new vegan options guide, making it easier than ever to order your sofritas and other vegan options Plant-based eating is truly taking over the world of fast food — and it’s poised to be a top global food trend this year. Popular demand already prompted Taco Bell to unveil an easy vegan options guide to make it …

New Book Helps Guide “The Vegan Way”

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“If you were given the power to singlehandedly make the world a much better place, for yourself and those around you, simply by eating delicious foods, wearing cool clothes, using fantastic products, and exercising thoughtfulness, would you?” That’s the question writer Jackie Day (My Vegan Journal) asks in her intro to “The Vegan Way.” And if you answered yes, this empowering new …

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Food Trends: Plants & Meat-Free Meats Are In

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Meat-free in 2017 Plant-based “meats” had a big year in 2016: from their starring spot on the World Health Summit menu, to being sold right alongside their meat counterparts in meat aisles across the U.S. According to Grist, “Someday we’ll look back at 2016 as the year we realized we might be perfectly happy to give up meat.” As consumers increasingly …

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Animal Outlook in 2016: The Power of Change

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2016: Our Year in Review THANK YOU: Together, we are changing the world for animals. As highlighted in our year-in-review video, Animal Outlook has achieved groundbreaking progress and victories for farmed animals in 2016, thanks to your generosity and support. Our brave investigator uncovered for the time ever the horrors hidden inside chicken breeding factory farms. We successfully persuaded three top …

Big Dairy Says Dairy-Free “Milk” Is Confusing. Our Solution: Label “Cow Milk.”

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Jan. 2017 update: Sign and share our petition: Tell Big Dairy to label its products “cow milk.” Dairy-free, plant-based milks are flying off the shelves as more and more Americans choose vegan alternatives free of cholesterol and cruelty. It seems a growing number of consumers have stopped believing the lies about dairy being good for our bodies, and studies continue …

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Criminal Animal Cruelty Complaint Filed Against Hormel Supplier

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This week in Minnesota state court, Animal Outlook filed a complaint alleging criminal animal cruelty based on undercover video filmed inside Quality Pork Processors (QPP), a pig slaughter plant that exclusively supplies Hormel Foods. The filing in Mower County District Court applies the state law, Minn. Stat. § 343.22, allowing private citizens to request a warrant and investigation upon an …

New Vegan Cookbook Is Everything Mexican Food Fans Have Been Waiting For

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When it comes to crowd-pleasing cuisine, it’s hard to beat Mexican food. Because seriously — who doesn’t love tacos, tamales, and churros?! These delicious dishes are often made with meat and dairy, but Eddie Garza is helping you recreate your favorite Mexican foods entirely vegan! The vegan chef extraordinaire is revealing his cruelty-free culinary secrets in a new cookbook: ¡Salud! Vegan Mexican Cookbook. …