Want to Fight Climate Change? Use Your Fork & Eat Green!

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Forbes recently ranked 9 things each of us can do to fight climate change. Standing strong at #1: “Become a vegetarian, or better yet a vegan!” And the article even states that if you give up meat and dairy just one day each week “it will still be the most important action you can take,” since animal agriculture’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions could be as high …

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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 …

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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 …

2017: Seven Easy Ways to Help Animals In The New Year

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2017: Helping animals in the new year As we say goodbye to 2016, we hope you’re as ready as we are to jump-start the New Year with refreshed energy to embrace all the opportunities for change. Though we know many challenges may lie ahead, farm animals have good reason for hope: You. And Animal Outlook is here to inspire and …

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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 …

Reader’s Choice: COK’s Top 6 Blogs of 2016

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Wow: Together, we’ve truly demonstrated the power of change in 2016! As we look back at all Compassion Over Killing has been able to achieve for farm animals this year with your support, we’re celebrating YOU and all you do to help us build a kinder tomorrow. Standing united, we’re changing the world for animals through our hard-hitting investigations, strategic …

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 …