Zachary Toliver

Zachary spent most of his life bouncing around various rural Midwestern towns before finally settling down in the Pacific Northwest—largely because of the region’s phenomenal vegan food. If he’s not writing or playing banjo for a captive audience (aka “the two dogs who live with him”), you can assume he’s hiking in the Cascade mountains, rock climbing, or reading about the complex social lives of fish.

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Texas A&M Dog Tormentor Receives 30,000 Messages From PETA

In case dog tormenter Peter Nghiem didn’t get the message that it’s wrong to inflict pain on so many lives, all these people decided to tell him.

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Food Safety Inspections Have Nosedived—We Must Keep Slaughterhouses Closed

Food recalls have come to a screeching halt, as COVID-19 has completely disrupted the nation’s food-safety system.

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Animals You Didn’t Realize Suffer at Roadside Zoos Just Like Tigers

Many other animals besides tigers are torn away from their mothers, kept in squalid conditions, and used for public encounters so that roadside zoos can make money.

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Victory! Horses Spared Chicago Traffic, Forced Labor With Carriage Ban

Horses in Chicago will no longer be forced to pound the pavement through extreme heat, thunderstorms, and bone-chilling blizzards.

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PETA Blasts Facility That Bled and Killed Goat—Take Action Now

According to the USDA inspection report, such a large amount of blood was not supposed to have been drawn from the goat—a lethal error.

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PETA Rolls Into Monkey Torturer’s Neighborhood With Drive-by Protest

If you think PETA’s honking and general hullabaloo sounded crazy, wait until you hear how NIH has tortured frightened monkeys for decades.

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PETA Offers to Retrain Slaughterhouse Workers to Produce Vegan Meats

COVID-19 and other deadly diseases have a major impact on the pig- and bird-flesh supply. What better time to overhaul this filthy industry?

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PETA’s ‘Vegans for the Vulnerable’—Help Food Banks Keep Up With Demand

Lines for food banks currently stretch almost to the horizon. Help facilities keep up with demand with PETA’s Vegans for the Vulnerable initiative.

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Court Rules That OHSU Must Give PETA Videos of Controversial Monkey Tests

We can only imagine what cruelty monkeys must have endured for Oregon Health & Science University to try this hard to bury footage of its experiments.

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Experimenters Could Create COVID-19 Hotbeds Among Imprisoned Monkeys

The 1995 film “Outbreak” isn’t supposed to be a “how to” guide. We must suspend all experiments on monkeys right now to stop the spread of COVID-19.

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Raising and Killing Animals for Exotic Skins Could Spark the Next Pandemic

Raising and killing exotic animals for “luxury” fashion items may be setting the stage for the next viral pandemic.

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Jeff Lowe Did a Reddit AMA—It Went Just As Badly as You’d Think

In a grasping attempt to stay relevant, Jeff Lowe of “Tiger King” recently appeared on Reddit to do an “Ask Me Anything”—and wow, did people ask him anything.

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Photo of Jeff Lowe: City of Las Vegas Marshal

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PETA Asks LVMH When It Will Stop Fueling the Next Deadly Pandemic

With its pandemic-fueling potential, LVMH’s sale of fur and exotic skins shows a total disregard for everyone’s life.

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Calif. and N.Y. Lawmakers Join PETA in Push to Ban Deadly ‘Wet Markets’

PETA has been calling for a ban on live-animal markets from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. Every government body should be doing the same.

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New ‘Tiger King’ Episode Hints at What We’ve Known: Joe Killed Animals

‘Tiger King’ just released a follow-up eighth episode. Even if this show were 37 episodes long, it couldn’t possibly cover all the cruel things Joe Exotic has done to animals.

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